STATE v. GRATTEN

No. 50137.

375 S.W.2d 179 (1964)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Charles GRATTEN, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

February 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack J. Isgur, Kansas City, for appellant.

Thomas F. Eagleton, Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, James W. Steele, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Joseph, for respondent.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

Charles Gratten, Jr., better known to his numerous jailhouse witnesses (nine) as "Lawyer Gratten," has been found guilty of robbery in the first degree and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.

Gratten did not testify; however, his partially supported defense was an alibi, that at the hour of the robbery on Cypress Street, 9:15 a. m., he was getting a haircut "and shot a little craps" in the...

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