State v. Collett

526 S.W.2d 920, 1975 Mo. App. LEXIS 2096
CourtMissouri Court of Appeals
DecidedAugust 12, 1975
Docket35980
StatusPublished
Cited by41 cases

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State v. Collett, 526 S.W.2d 920, 1975 Mo. App. LEXIS 2096 (Mo. Ct. App. 1975).

Opinion

SIMEONE, Presiding Judge.

I

Introduction

This is an appeal by the defendant-appellant, Edward Eugene Collett, from a judg *923 ment of conviction entered January 18, 1974, by which the appellant was sentenced by the court to the department of corrections for the offenses of robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon and assault with intent to do great bodily harm with malice. §§ 560.120, 559.-180, RSMo 1969.

Appellant was charged in Count I of an amended information with robbery, first degree and in Count II with assault with intent to do great bodily harm with malice; he was found guilty by a jury on both counts, and the court, having found the Second Offender Act, § 556.280, RSMo 1969, applicable, sentenced the appellant to two thirty-year terms to run consecutively. He appeals. For reasons hereinafter stated, we affirm.

Appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence, so that only those facts necessary for the disposition of the points raised on this appeal need be stated.

II

The Facts

A jury could reasonably find the following: Reverend Emmett Louis Glenn, an ordained minister, in his spare time assisted his son, Donald, at his son’s Shell Service Station, located at 13090 Tesson Ferry Road in St. Louis County. On the evening of March 3, 1970, Rev. Glenn was working alone at the station office. At about 8:00 p. m., a Chevrolet pickup truck pulled into the service station near the entrance to the office. The passenger side faced the office. Rev. Glenn saw the truck pull up as he was seated at the front desk facing a window overlooking the parking area. He was seated at the desk, writing out work orders. There were three persons in the truck. Rev. Glenn noticed that on the side of the truck were the words “Dittmer, Missouri.” Two of the men, identified as the defendant and Michael Wells, came into the office, and one asked where they could “get a sandwich.” The third man, James Poirrer, crossed in front of the office and went to the other side of the building where there was a soda machine. While the defendant and Wells were talking, Rev. Glenn had “eye contact” with them. One of the men, identified by Rev. Glenn as the defendant, complained about having a pain in his abdomen. “He kind of bent over and when he raised up he had a gun in his hand. He said: This is a stick up. You get that register open and you get that register open in a hurry.” Glenn opened the register, and Collett commanded Wells to “take the money out.” Wells took the “bills” from the register — about $182.00. Glenn was then taken “around the back,” “out through the side door past the cash register and around to the back.” The side door led to a “bay” area and to the “stock room.” At trial, accounts of Glenn and Wells differed as to who took Glenn to the stock room. Wells testified that both he and the defendant began to accompany Glenn' to the stock room, but that Wells went to wait on a customer who had pulled into the station. Glenn indicated that Wells led him to the stock room holding something to his back. According to Glenn, while he was in the stock room, both Wells and Collett had a gun, although Wells denied he had a gun. Collett entered the stock room and said, “What have you got this guy standing up for. Get him on the floor.” Collett then ordered Glenn to lie on the floor. Possibly a minute later, the third man, James Poirrer, came in and “shouted to the other two men in the stock room the police has been alerted. We have got to get out of here.” Collett then told Glenn to put his head down. “He was close to me standing over me.” Then “I was hit in the face on the right side.” “Next thing occured [sic] I was hit on the back of the head.” “Then I was hit a third time and I heard a sound like the firing of a gun and I went completely out.” The whole time that Collett was in the back room he had “a gun in his hands.” Glenn’s ear was “practically cut off,” and he spent *924 some nine days in the hospital. From the time that the gun was pulled in the office to the time Glenn got to the back room, “a minute; maybe two minutes; somewhere in that time limit” elapsed. Glenn’s wallet was also taken from him.

While Glenn was in the back room, a customer, Raymond Knittig, whose father owns a bowling alley across the street from the service station, pulled in for oil. Wells waited on him but did not know how to put the oil in the engine or how much it cost. Knittig told Wells he wanted two cans and told him he thought it cost $.40 a can. He gave Wells a $10.00 bill. While Wells waited on Knittig, Poirrer waited on another customer. Wells went to the stock room to get change. After receiving his change, Knittig left. Wells then got into the truck and tried to start it. “And I heard what I thought was a shot. Next thing I knew both [Poirrer and Collett] went out to the truck and both got into the truck.” Wells asked Collett, “Did you shoot him?” and Collett replied, “No, the gun discharged when I hit him.”

The three then went to Collett’s house and divided the money and the contents of Glenn’s wallet, which had been taken from him.

Some minutes after the robbery, Officer Thomas Gilyon of the St. Louis County Police Department received a radio dispatch and proceeded to the Shell station. When he arrived, Rev. Glenn was bleeding. Soon Patrolman George Ice and Detective Marvin Phelan also arrived. Rev. Glenn gave them a description of the three men and of the pickup truck (a “light green”) and then was taken in an ambulance to the hospital. Other officers came, and photographs were taken. The next day, Patrolman Ice showed Glenn some photographs, but he was not able to identify anyone from the photos. On two separate occasions following Glenn’s release from the hospital, he was shown a number of photographs. On the second occasion, March 20,1970, Officer Jimmie Kitterman of the police department of the City of St._ Louis went to Glenn’s home and showed him six photographs, and Glenn identified Collett. Glenn stated that there was no doubt in his mind that Collett was the “one who came in first with the gun.”

At trial, during direct examination, the prosecutor asked Officer Kitterman:

“Q. When you went to see him did you have something to show him?
A. Yes.
Q. What?
A. Photographs.
Q. About how many?
A. Six.
Q. Was Mr. Collett’s photograph one of those?
A. Yes, it was.
Q. Did Mr. Glenn have anything with regard to that photograph to say to you?
A. Yes. He positively identified — ”

Then the following occurred:

“[Defense counsel]: Your Honor, I will object to anything somebody else said as being hearsay.
THE COURT: Sustained.
[Prosecutor]: Okay. Now that was the same day that you arrested Edward Col-lett?

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