State v. Pope

EAGER, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was tried on an amended information for first degree robbery and found guilty by a jury. The court found, apart from the jury, § 556.280, that he had been convicted, sentenced and imprisoned on four charges of robbery in the State of Illinois, the sentences having run concurrently. Thereupon, after considering and overruling a motion for new trial, the court sentenced defendant to a term of fifteen years in the penitentiary. Since no brief is filed here, we consider such assignments of the motion for new trial as are sufficient, and those parts of the record…