State v. Hobbs

PATRICIA BRECKENRIDGE, Judge.

A jury convicted David L. Hobbs of the class B felony of abuse of a child, section 568.060.1(1), RSMo 2000. 1 He was sentenced, as a prior and persistent offender, to fifteen years in prison. Mr. Hobbs raises three points on appeal. First, Mr. Hobbs claims that the trial court plainly erred in allowing a section 491.075 hearing to proceed in his absence. Second, he claims that the trial court erred in overruling his motion for acquittal at the close of the evidence and in entering a judgment finding him guilty of the class B felony of abuse of a child because the…