State v. Burton

CRANDALL, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, James M. Burton, Jr., appeals from the judgment of convictions, entered pursuant to a jury verdict, for assaulting a law enforcement officer in the first degree, § 565.081.1, RSMo (Cum.Supp.1992), and for resisting arrest, § 575.150 RSMo, (1986). He was sentenced, as a prior and persistent offender, to concurrent terms of imprisonment of ten years for assault and five years for resisting arrest. We affirm.

The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, established that on June 12,1991, defendant visited his probation officer at the State…