STATE v. COOKSON

No. 49202.

361 S.W.2d 683 (1962)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. John Frederick COOKSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

November 14, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris A. Shenker, Murry L. Randall, St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.

Thomas F. Eagleton, Atty. Gen., Eugene G. Bushmann, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

John F. Cookson, with a prior felony conviction, has been found guilty of robbery in the first degree and sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. Without regard to the appellant's connection with the offense, the basic facts are that on the 29th day of December 1960, as Mary and Gilbert Grieshaber, operators of Gip's Tavern, drove onto the parking lot at the rear of their tavern they were held up by masked gunmen and robbed of $6,000. The robbers...

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