State v. Wright

HENLEY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing Eddie Joe Wright (hereinafter defendant) to imprisonment for a term of ten years on his conviction by a jury of robbery, first degree, by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon. Sections S60.120 and 560.135. 1

The facts in support of the charge are brief and come from the state’s witness, James J. Leary, night manager of the Market Basket Grocery Store, located at 3S06 Troost, Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Leary testified that on the night of September 30, 1968, between 9 and 9:30 o’clock, he was working at the store’s check-out counter…