State v. Menteer

SIMON, Judge.

Appellant, Dennis Menteer, was convicted by a jury of Robbery in the First Degree, § 569.020 R.S.Mo.1986, and sentenced to life imprisonment. (All further statutory references shall be to R.S.Mo.1986 unless otherwise noted.) On appeal, he asserts error in the trial court’s failure to: (1) remand the case to the associate division of the circuit court for a preliminary hearing; (2) grant a request for continuance based on counsel’s inability to have meaningful contact with appellant before trial; and, (3) grant appellant’s request for continuance based on the state’s late…