State v. Campbell

Defendant-appellant, Joe Thomas Campbell, was found guilty by a jury of exhibiting a dangerous and deadly weapon in a rude, angry and threatening manner and the jury assessed punishment at two years in the Missouri Department of Corrections. § 564.610, RSMo., 1969, V.A.M.S. After motion for a new trial was overruled, sentence was imposed on January 26, 1973. Defendant appeals.- We reverse and remand.

Defendant, having been indicted on April 20, 1971, was tried in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis before the court and jury beginning November 20, 1972. Defendant had been tried on two…