State Missouri v. Gilbert Madison

Appellant, Gilbert Madison, was convicted of robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon under V.A.M.S. §§ 560.120 and 560.135, by a jury in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, and his punishment was assessed at imprisonment in the State Department of Corrections for a term of ninety-nine years. Following rendition of judgment and imposition of sentence an appeal was perfected to this Court. On November 8, 1968, two men entered Usselman's Market, 1 North Spring Street, St. Louis, carrying a shotgun and pistol, shot a customer with the pistol, shot Gilbert Usselman with the shotgun, took $250 from the cash register, and left the store.