State v. Taylor

CLARK, Presiding Judge.

Lillian Taylor, a then inmate of the Renz Correctional Center in maximum security confinement, was tried by a jury, was convicted of the offense of offering to commit violence to a correctional officer and was sentenced to serve ten years consecutive to her prior sentences. On this appeal, she contends the trial court erred in failing to include certain definitions of terms in the verdict directing instruction and in sentencing appellant to an excessive and disproportionate term of punishment.

At the time of the offense with which appellant was charged in this case, she…