Supreme Court of Missouri January 8, 1901 (State v. McLain)

BURGESS, J.

At the August term, 1899, of the circuit court of Cape Girardeau county, the defendant was convicted of robbery in the first degree and his punishment fixed at five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, under an indictment charging him and one other person, to the grand jurors unknown, with feloniously assaulting one August Vornkohl, and by putting him in fear of some immediate