State v. Cook

• Decision Date: 12 October 1959
• Docket Number: No. 1,No. 47312,47312,1
• Citation: State v. Cook, 327 S.W.2d 854 (Mo. 1959)
• Parties: STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Roy Edwin COOK, Appellant
• Court: Missouri Supreme Court

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327 S.W.2d 854

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Roy Edwin COOK, Appellant.

No. 47312.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

Oct. 12, 1959.

Ray Mabee, Galena, for appellant.

John M. Dalton, Atty. Gen., Donald D. Guffey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

HOUSER, Commissioner.

Roy Edwin Cook, tried in the Circuit Court of Stone County and there convicted of the crime of robbery in the first degree with a dangerous and deadly weapon, and sentenced to seven years in the state penitentiary, appeals from the judgment of conviction. Appellant has filed no brief on appeal.

We are precluded from the consideration of any matters required to be preserved in a motion for a new trial, by reason of the fact that appellant filed no motion for a new trial. State v. Parker, Mo.Sup., 310 S.W.2d 923.

An examination of the record as required by Supreme Court Rule 28.02, 42 V.A.M.S., reveals no error. The pertinent allegations of the information, which charged robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon, follow almost identically the language of the information approved as sufficient in State v. Maddox, Mo.Sup., 250 S.W.2d 971. And see State v. Yates, Mo.Sup., 252 S.W. 641. The verdict of the jury found defendant guilty of 'robbery in the first degree, as charged in the information,' and assessed appellant's punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of seven years. The verdict was definite; it made a finding with reference to the same offense with which the appellant was charged in the...