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- Title: State Missouri v. Billy Barnett
- Author : Supreme Court of Missouri Division 2
- Release Date : January 10, 1960
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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Defendant was convicted of first degree robbery in the Circuit Court of Newton County, on change of venue from McDonald County.
The jury assessed his punishment at five years' imprisonment, but recommended "leniency." Motion for new trial was duly filed
and overruled and the defendant sentenced. On this appeal the sole question briefed is the alleged error in admitting in evidence
a signed confession. With the case in this posture we need not detail the facts of the robbery at length. On the evening of December 19, 1957, the operator of a liquor store at Tiff City, Missouri, was robbed. Two men entered the
store, one armed with a pistol and one with a shotgun; they wore stocking masks. They took the owner's billfold, made him
open a safe and took what money they found there, and rifled the cash register. The owner, Julius Martin, was shot in the
hand during these proceedings; he testified that the robbers took approximately $400. He was unable to identify the defendant
at the trial. Defendant was taken into custody around midnight on May 18-19, 1958, in Seneca, where he lived. The officers
apparently took him in for investigation concerning another matter. He was placed in jail at Neosho soon after midnight, on
the 19th of May. No charge was filed against him on that date. After the officers had questioned certain other persons on
the evening of the 19th of May, they decided to interrogate defendant concerning the robbery of the liquor store. He was brought
to the office of the prosecuting attorney at approximately 1:30 a.m. on May 20, 1958, and the interrogation continued, off
and on, until about 3:00 a.m.