State Ex Rel. Scroggins v. Kellogg

MARK D. PFEIFFER, Presiding Judge.

The State of Missouri (the State) seeks a writ of mandamus ordering the Circuit Court of Buchanan County (the trial court) to vacate its amended judgment of July 1, 2009, in which it granted Jeffrey Cornelius’s (Cornelius) Rule 29.05 1 motion and modified his two 7-year sentences to be served concurrently instead of consecutively. In its writ, the State argues that the trial court lacked authority to do so. We agree.

On February 13, 2002, Cornelius pleaded guilty to the class B felonies of first-degree burglary and first-degree assault. The trial court…