State v. Hill

KAROHL, Judge.

This case is a consolidated appeal of defendant’s conviction of tampering in the first degree, § 569.080 RSMo 1986, and from the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion after an evidentiary hearing. Mo. Const. Art. V, § 3 (1945, amend. 1982); Rule 29.-15(e). The trial court sentenced defendant as a prior and persistent offender to four years imprisonment.

Defendant relies on three points of error. The first point challenges the sufficiency of the state’s evidence. The second claims the trial court committed plain error by failing to give a verdict directing instruction which included…