State v. White

BARRETT, Commissioner.

A jury has found William Robert White guilty of an assault with malice with intent to rob and fixed his punishment at 10 years’ imprisonment. The information appropriately charged the offense in this language, that on October 10, 1966, White “feloniously, on purpose and of his malice aforethought, did make an assault on Emily Kaune, with a pistol with the intent to rob the said Kroger Company, Incorporated, a corporation, in the care and custody of Emily Kaune.” State v. Washington, Mo., 357 S.W.2d 92; RS Mo 1959, § 559.180, V.A.M.S.

In brief, the circumstances were that…