State v. Pendas

TURNAGE, Judge.

Celestino Pendas was convicted of one count of selling a controlled substance, § 195.211, RSMo Supp.1990, and he was sentenced to a fifteen-year term of imprisonment in accordance with the jury verdict. On appeal, Pendas contends that the trial court erred by failing to strike a prospective juror for cause, by overruling his objection to a portion of the prosecutor’s closing argument, and by incorrectly defining “reasonable doubt” in a jury instruction. He also appeals from the denial of his Rule *51429.15 motion for post-conviction relief, claiming that his trial counsel was…