STATE v. BURNS

No. 44497.

280 S.W.2d 119 (1955)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Robert Emmett BURNS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri. Division No. 2.

June 13, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris A. Shenker, St. Louis, for appellant.

John M. Dalton, Atty. Gen., Winston Cook, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


BOHLING, Commissioner.

This is an appeal by Robert E. Burns from a judgment imposing a sentence of five years imprisonment for robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon. Sections 560.120, 560.135 RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S. He contends error occurred in unduly restricting his counsel's cross-examination of witnesses, in admitting certain testimony, in the argument of the State's attorney, in giving the State's main instruction, and in not instructing...

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