State v. Houston

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

By the verdict of a jury appellant was found guilty of robbery in the first degree by force and violence. A previous felony conviction having been alleged and found, appellant as a second offender was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the Department of Corrections.

The first issue presented is whether appellant was entitled, under the evidence, to have the jury instructed upon the lesser offense of stealing from a person.

On the night of April 26, 1968, around nine o’clock, Nellie Hampton was on her way to her home from the City Hall of Kinloch, Missouri. She had…