State v. Johnson

Defendant, Glenn Archie Johnson, was convicted of first degree robbery. The jury fixed punishment at 20 years imprisonment. On appeal, defendant argues that illegally seized evidence was admitted against him at trial and that there was an improper variance between the crime charged in the information and that charged in the verdict directing instruction. We affirm.

At approximately 6:45 P.M. on November 24, 1975, three persons, one male and two females, entered Clancy’s Bar and Grill located on North Broadway in St. Louis. The man, brandishing a .12 gauge automatic sawed-off shotgun, announced…