Wilhite v. State

SIMON, Judge.

Defendant appeals the denial of his Rule 24.035 motion after an evidentiary hearing. The record reveals that on or about March 7, 1990, defendant escaped from the Missouri Department of Corrections facility in Pacific Missouri. The following day defendant burglarized a private home in St. Louis County, during which he assaulted two of the residents using a kitchen knife found on the premises. After being apprehended defendant was charged in an indictment, amended by information, of escape and in a second indictment, also amended by information, of burglary, two counts of assault…