State v. Jones

ROBERT R. WELBORN, Special Judge.

Bradford R. Jones was found guilty on a jury trial of robbery in the first degree with a deadly weapon. Acting under the second offender law, the trial court fixed his punishment at 20 years’ imprisonment. Jones has appealed from the judgment and sentence so imposed.

At around 10:30 P.M., February 13, 1975, two men carrying guns and wearing bandana masks over their faces entered the Hen House Market at 95th and Blue Ridge in Kansas City. They pointed the guns at Dennis Kurtz, a Hen House employee, and ordered him to open the cash registers. He did so and the…