State v. Bozarth

PAUL M. SPINDEN, Chief Judge.

Starbert Bozarth appeals the circuit court’s judgment to convict him of attempted escape from confinement and damage to jail property. He asserts that the circuit court committed plain error in submitting the verdict director for attempted escape from confinement because the instruction did not define the mental state of “knowingly.” We affirm.

The verdict directing instruction was patterned after MAI-CR3d 329.74.2 and said:

As to Count I, if you find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt:

First, that on or about August 21, 1999, in the County of…