STATE v. SUMMERVILLE

No. 52886.

419 S.W.2d 38 (1967)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Doris SUMMERVILLE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

October 9, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman H. Anderson, Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Joseph S. Boland, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, Attorneys for Respondent.

Shaw, Hanks & Bornschein, by Charles M. Shaw, Clayton, Attorney for Appellant.


PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Appellant seeks reversal of her conviction and sentence of five years' imprisonment for robbery in the first degree for the sole reasons that the "credibility of witnesses" instruction was error because it singled her out for a comment on her credibility; and that the same instruction contained an erroneous "Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus" paragraph.

The objected to Instruction No. 6 is:

"You are further instructed that...

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