State v. Robinson

SATZ, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Hallie Robinson appeals his conviction by a jury of attempted second degree robbery, §§ 564.011, RSMo. 1978 and 569.030, RSMo. 1973.1 Defendant was sentenced as a prior offender to fifteen years imprisonment. We affirm.

A person commits robbery, second degree when he “forcibly steals”, § 569.030, and he “forcibly steals” when “he uses or threatens the immediate use of physical *81force upon another person for the purpose of:(a) Preventing or overcoming resistance to the taking of property or to retention thereof immediately after the taking.” § 569.010(1).

The…