Melvin Perry Martin was found guilty by a jury in the St. Louis Circuit Court of robbery in the first degree with a deadly weapon. Acting under the Second Offender Act, the court assessed punishment of ten years' imprisonment. This appeal followed.
On the afternoon of December 17, 1968, two men entered a Conrad, Incorporated delivery truck after its driver, Richard Chaney, had made a delivery...
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