State v. Burroughs

Defendant-appellant, Robert Gene Burroughs, was charged with a class D felony — escape from confinement — in violation of § 575.210, R.S.Mo. He was found guilty by a jury. On June 20, 1986 he was sentenced to ten years in the Department of Corrections and Human Resources, the sentence to run consecutively with the sentence he was then serving. He appeals. We affirm.

The information charged that on July 12, 1985, while serving a sentence for robbery in the first degree, appellant escaped from confinement. The information also charged that defendant is a persistent offender as defined in §…