State v. Bell

EDWIN H. SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Damon Bell appeals the judgment of his jury conviction in the Circuit Court of Platte County for robbery in the first degree, § 569.020, 1 for which he was sentenced, as a prior offender, § 558.016, to a term of imprisonment of thirty years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

The appellant raises three points on appeal. In Point I, he claims that the trial court erred in allowing, over his objection, the State’s fingerprint expert to testify with respect to the match she found between his “suspected known prints” in Exhibit 9 and the palm print found at…