State v. Chavez

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

Defendant Chavez appeals her jury trial conviction of perjury, § 575.040 RSMo 1978, and sentence by the court as a prior offender to an eight-year term of imprisonment. The issue on appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction.

Chavez was charged by indictment with committing perjury by testifying falsely, while a witness under oath in the criminal trial styled State v. Roxanna Kress, that she did not see Roxanna Kress assault Joanna Shaddox. The evidence adduced at the perjury trial, viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, was as follows:…