STATE v. JONES

No. 52592.

745 S.W.2d 748 (1987)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Melvin JONES, Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Four.

Rehearing Denied February 4, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary C. McWilliams, Asst. Public Defender, St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.

William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., Deborah L. Ground, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for plaintiff-respondent.


CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant, Melvin Louis Jones, appeals from his conviction, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and the resultant sentence of fifteen years' imprisonment.

On appeal defendant claims three points of trial court error: (1) the indictment was insufficient to confer jurisdiction because it failed to allege an essential element of robbery in the first degree, to wit, violence toward the victim or putting the victim in fear; (2) by...

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