State v. Heistand

GREENE, Judge.

Defendant, Kenneth Wayne Heistand, was jury-convicted of first degree robbery, § 569.020,1 and second degree assault, § 565.060, and thereafter sentenced, after a finding that he was a persistent offender, to consecutive sentences of life imprisonment for robbery and ten years for assault.

On appeal, Heistand does not question the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the convictions. It suffices to say that substantial evidence was introduced at trial from which the jury could find, beyond a reasonable doubt, that on January 5, 1981, Heistand and John Sprous, wearing ski masks…