State v. Fitzsimmons

Appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis of the crime of robbery in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon. He received a sentence of twenty years' imprisonment in the penitentiary from which sentence he has duly appealed.

The facts briefly stated are: On the night of March 24, 1932, at about ten o'clock, two men entered a drug store located at the corner of Kingshighway and Lotus Street in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. One of the men, with a drawn revolver, stood guard over the customers, and the other man,…