State v. McCrary

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Michael McCrary was charged with attempted robbery in the second degree, § 564.011, RSMo 1994. He was convicted by a jury and sentenced to four years imprisonment. He appeals his conviction on the grounds that the evidence produced at trial was insufficient to establish his guilt and that the inadvertent admission of evidence regarding a suspicious individual demanding money in the vicinity of the attempted robbery deprived him of a fair trial.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On November 5, 1998, at 1:30 p.m., Fred Robertson, owner of Fred’s Barber and Styling…