State v. Garrett

EAGER, Judge.

These defendants were charged jointly by amended information with first degree robbery by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon, alleged to have been committed in the County of New Madrid on October 27, 1965. Each was also charged with one or more convictions of prior felonies and with imprisonment therefor, Billy Joe Garrett with three, Sam Irby with four, and Lonnie Garrett with one. They were tried jointly and the jury, in separate verdicts, found all three guilty of “Robbery 1st Degree.” Billy Joe Garrett was sentenced by the court to a term of fifty years, Sam Irby to a…