State v. Barnes

NANCY STEFFEN RAHMEYER, Judge.

Edward Barnes (“Appellant”) was convicted of one count of endangering a corrections officer, a felony under section 565.085, 1 for spitting on a corrections officer. Following a bench trial, the trial court sentenced Appellant to a two-year prison term, to..run concurrently with a sentence he was already serving. The information charged Appellant with spitting on corrections officer Charles Mitchell on July 23, 2007. At the bench trial, however, the prosecution proved that Appellant spit on a different corrections officer, Edward Cantrell, on August 15, 2007.…