STATE v. HAMS

No. KCD 26792.

515 S.W.2d 789 (1974)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent. v. Byron Eugene HAMS, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City District.

November 4, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willard B. Bunch, Public Defender, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Kansas City, for appellant.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., G. Michael O'Neal, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Before PRITCHARD, P. J., and SWOFFORD and SOMERVILLE, JJ.


PRITCHARD, Judge.

Two points are presented by appellant in seeking reversal of his conviction of the crime of robbery in the first degree, after which sentence was imposed at 7 years confinement in the Department of Corrections. The first claim of error relates to alleged inflammatory conduct and argument of state's counsel in waving a handgun and bullets in front of the jury and in using "rhetoric which irreparably prejudiced the appellant's right to a fair trial...

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