State v. Sydnor
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — lion. Kent K. Koerner, Judge. (1) The separate verdicts are responsive to the issues, and are amply sufficient to support the respective judgments entered in accordance therewith. State v. King, 194 Mo. 494; State v. Grossman, 214 Mo. 243; State v. Bishop, 231 Mo. 415. (2) The verdicts are supported by abundant evidence of the defendants’ guilt.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — lion. Kent K. Koerner, Judge. (1) The separate verdicts are responsive to the issues, and are amply sufficient to support the respective judgments entered in accordance therewith. State v. King, 194 Mo. 494; State v. Grossman, 214 Mo. 243; State v. Bishop, 231 Mo. 415. (2) The verdicts are supported by abundant evidence of the defendants’ guilt. No demurrer was offered by the defendants to the evidence on the part of the State, nor at the close of all the testimony in the case; and the complaint made in their motion for a new trial that the verdicts…
1Opinion of the CourtBeown, P. J.
Convicted of the crime of robbery in the first degree the defendants appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of St. Louis City fixing their punishment at five years each in the penitentiary.
John Herbert, the prosecuting witness, testifying on behalf of the State, says that on'the morning of January 1, 1913, about the hour of 1:30 a. m., he was robbed by defendants near the corner of Fairfax and Sarah streets in St. Louis City, a locality inhabited mostly by negroes.
About two or three blocks from the scene of the alleged robbery is located a Chinese restaurant, and about the same distance,…
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