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- Title: State Missouri v. Michael Henry Jaeger
- Author : Supreme Court of Missouri Division 2
- Release Date : January 11, 1965
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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Robert W. Stephens, Daniel E. Grindstaff and Michael H. ("Big Mike") Jaeger, all with prior felony records, were jointly charged
with robbery with a dangerous weapon. After a severance and upon an information in lieu of an indictment, a jury found the
appellant Jaeger guilty of the principal offense and the court, after a stipulation by the parties as to the facts and a finding
of two prior felony convictions, sentenced the appellant to imprisonment for a term of years, just how many years being one
of the questions involved upon the appeal. As to the substantive crime the information appropriately charged that Stephens,
Grindstaff and Jaeger "feloniously and wilfully and by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon, to-wit: a pistol, did rob,
steal, take and carry away, $50.00 lawful currency of the United States, one ladies Autumn-haze mink coat, one ladies dinner
ring, platinum mounting and various other items of women's jewelry, all of the total value of $2,700.00, the property of Grace
Piccione, by then and there putting the said Grace Piccione in fear * * *." RSMo 1959, §§ 560.120, 560.135;
State v. Foster, Mo., 249 S.W.2d 371. While Stephens, Grindstaff and Jaeger were jointly charged, at least four people had some active part in the actual robbery
of Mrs. Piccione and at least two other people had some knowledge of the events leading up to the conspiracy to rob and afterwards
were told some of the facts by one or more of the robbers. The appellant Jaeger, age 35, was living in an apartment on McPherson
with Alan Braun, age 18, and Alan's girl friend, "a girl named Bobby," and their immediate concern, since "we was something
like partners," was money with which to pay the next month's rent. Thomas Allen Jones, age 25, admittedly guilty of "approximately
9 or 10" burglaries, "fingered" the Piccione robbery and was the fourth participant although not jointly charged with the
three other robbers. Jones, Braun and Braun's girl friend Bobby, age 20, all testified for the state and the consequence is
that aside from the testimony of the police, Mrs. Piccione and her housekeeper, the jury and the court had the unusual advantage
of the full details of a robbery from its planning to its execution and exposure and finally the arrest of all participants.