State v. Tull

HYDE, Judge.

Defendant charged under the Habitual Criminal Act (Sec. 556.280) was convicted of violence to “an officer and guard of the Department of Corrections” and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Sec. 216.460. (Statutory references are to RSMo and V.A.M.S.) Defendant was represented at the trial by a lawyer employed by him but has filed his own brief which only claims error in failing to give an instruction on self-defense or to mention self-defense in the main instruction authorizing a finding of guilty.

The State’s evidence showed that on March 13, 1962, Guard William H. Russell…