State v. Olson

A jury found Jerrol Allen Olson guilty of driving while intoxicated in violation of § 577.010, RSMo 1986. The court sentenced him as a prior offender pursuant to § 577.023.1(3), RSMo 1986, to confinement for one year in the county jail. On appeal Olson disputes being charged as a prior offender. The state has not favored this court with a respondent’s brief.

Olson presents no challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence. On November 18, 1989, a deputy sheriff stopped Olson’s car and ticketed him for driving while intoxicated, second offense. A subsequently-filed information charged Olson with…