State v. Bedford

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

By indictment the state charged defendant Van Bedford had knowingly resisted arrest by using physical force against a uniformed policeman. § 575.150.1, RSMo 1978. The jury found defendant guilty of resisting arrest and fixed punishment at four months in jail. After judgment the defendant appealed.

Here defendant challenges the sufficiency of the state’s evidence.

The state’s evidence: Following an armed robbery the victim identified defendant as one of the robbers to police officer Donald Smith who then sought to arrest defendant. Defendant avoided this by withdrawing a…