State v. Fox

BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

A Butler County jury convicted appellant Frank Fox of armed robbery (§ 560.-135 RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S.) and fixed his punishment at five years imprisonment in the Department of Corrections. In this appeal he contends reversible error was committed in his trial (a) by the admission of testimony of a deputy sheriff that he failed to reply to an inquiry by the officer and (b) in the giving of the state’s verdict directing instruction. We affirm.

Mrs. Faye Chambers was the manager of A’s Fish House in Poplar Bluff, and she resided in Inman Acres which is located east of that…