State v. Walker

BILLINGS, Judge.

Defendant Randolf Dean Walker was court-tried and convicted for escape from confinement [§ 575.210, RSMo 1978] and after having been found to be a persistent offender under § 558.016, RSMo 1978, was sentenced to a 10-year prison term. His single assignment of error in this appeal is directed to the State’s filing of an amended information which added allegations that he was a persistent offender. We affirm.

Following defendant’s arraignment in circuit court on the original information and his case being set for trial, the defendant filed a written waiver of trial by jury which…