State v. Gabriel

This case comes here on writ of error from the Circuit Court of Pettis County. For convenience we shall refer to defendant in error as plaintiff, or the State, and to plaintiff in error as defendant, as they were styled below.

Defendant, Gabriel, was charged with robbery in the first degree. The information also alleged two prior convictions of felony, service of the prior sentences imposed and discharge from those sentences, under what is called the Habitual Criminal Act, Section 4461, Revised Statutes 1929 (Mo. Stat. Ann., p. 3063). At the trial the former convictions, incarcerations and…