State v. Words

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

Defendant was charged with robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon, tried by a jury and found guilty, and sentenced by the court to twenty years imprisonment1 by reason of the jury’s inability to agree on his punishment.

A terse statement of facts surrounding the charged offense is sufficient as defendant’s single point on appeal, infra, does not question the sufficiency of the evidence. On the afternoon of November 6,1974, four men, one of whom was identified as the defendant, entered Smak’s Drive-in Restaurant at 6420 Troost, Kansas City,…