State v. Stallings

LISA WHITE HARDWICK, Judge.

Rickey Stallings was convicted on one count of forgery, § 570.090, R.S.Mo.2000, and sentenced to a ten-year prison term. On appeal, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction, alleges instructional error, and seeks plain error review of comments made during the State’s closing argument. We affirm.

Factual and Procedural History

In April 2002, Stallings was incarcerated at the Algoa Correctional Center, having served thirteen years of his twenty-three year sentence for various felony offenses. He worked as a clerk in the prison’s library.

On…