State v. Singleton

LOWENSTEIN, Presiding Judge.

This appeal consolidates the direct appeal of Singleton containing two counts of offering to commit violence to a correctional officer, Section 217.385, RSMo 1986, and an appeal of a dismissal of a post conviction remedy under Rule 29.15.

Singleton was jury-convicted and sentenced as a persistent offender to concurrent five year sentences for kicking and punching two corrections employees. His first point attacks the convictions because of instructional error in using verdict directors patterned after the applicable MAI CR3rd instructions. He claims the instructions…