State v. Crews

BARNEY, Judge.

Dale Crews (defendant) appeals his conviction, following a jury trial in the Circuit Court of New Madrid County, Missouri, of one count of assault in the first degree, § 565.050, RSMo 1986 and one count of armed criminal action, § 571.015, RSMo 1986. Pursuant to defendant’s request to have the trial judge determine the punishment per § 557.036.2(1), RSMo 1986 he was sentenced to fifteen years and three years, respectively, the sentences to run consecutively.

The defendant raises two points of trial court error. In point one, he asserts that the court erred in refusing to add the…