State v. Lee

TURNAGE, Judge.

Robert Lee, Jr. was convicted of offering to commit violence to an officer of a correctional institution in violation of § 217.385, RSMo Supp.1984 1 and sentenced to four years imprisonment to run consecutive to the sentence he was serving.

Lee contends on appeal that the trial court erred because § 217.385 does not cover attempts, the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict, and the jury instructions were erroneous. Affirmed.

Lee was serving a ten year sentence for first degree robbery at the Algoa Correctional Center in Cole County, Missouri. On May 6, 1984, Lee was…