Legal Opinion
State v. Tyler
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided September 4, 1979No. KCD 29846PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNEDY, Judge.
The defendant Melvin Leroy Tyler was convicted after jury trial in the Circuit Court of Platte County of robbery in the first degree, of rape, of kidnapping, and of armed criminal action. As a second offender, he was sentenced by the court to the following terms in the Department of Corrections, to be served consecutively: Robbery, 75 years; rape, 75 years; kidnapping, 10 years; and armed criminal action, 25 years.
From this judgment the defendant has appealed to this court.
Broadly stated the facts are as follows:
Defendant forced his way with a handgun into N. K.’s house in…
2Cases cited49 opinions
- Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Neil v. BiggersSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Bounds v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- State v. DegraffenreidSupreme Court of Missouri · 1972
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3Cited by41 opinions
- State v. HunterSupreme Court of Missouri · 1992
- Sours v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1980
- Melvin Leroy Tyler v. Milt Harper, Cris Egbert and Gary McConnellCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1984
- State Ex Rel. Wesolich v. GoekeMissouri Court of Appeals · 1990
- State v. BynumSupreme Court of Missouri · 1984
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