State v. Bounds

TURNAGE, Judge.

Ronald Bounds was found guilty by a jury of burglary in the second degree, § 569.170, RSMo 1986, and attempted burglary in the second degree, § 564.011, RSMo 1986. Bounds was tried as a prior and persistent offender and the court imposed sentence of seven years on each charge with the sentences to run concurrent.

Bounds contends the court erred in giving an instruction, in failing to find that the two charges constituted double jeopardy, allowing the testimony of a police officer, in failing to allow a character witness to answer certain questions, allowing the prosecutor to…