State v. Murry

CRIST, Judge.

Defendant was convicted in the Circuit Court of St. Charles County of exhibiting a dangerous and deadly weapon and was sentenced to a term of one year in the county jail. We affirm.

Defendant first complains that the trial court erred in giving MAI-CR 13.12, the verdict director on the offense charged. He states that the instruction was not couched in the terms of the applicable statute, thus permitting a conviction when his actions may not have violated the statute. The pattern instruction requires a submission that the defendant exhibited the weapon “in a rude, angry and…