State v. Roper

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from his convictions by a jury of second degree felony murder, armed criminal action, and robbery in the first degree and the two consecutive life imprisonment sentences and concurrent thirty year imprisonment sentence imposed by the court on defendant as a prior and persistent offender. We affirm.1

The evidence clearly established that Cornelius Bridges shot and killed Jeanine Balsamo near Talayna’s restaurant while robbing her of her purse. See State v. Bridges, 810 S.W.2d 682 (Mo.App.1991). At the time of that killing defendant was in the company of…