State v. Taylor

WEIER, Acting Presiding Judge.

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of striking and kicking a police officer in violation of Section 557.215, RSMo 1969, V. A.M.S. Defendant had been charged under the second offender act and upon a determination that he had been previously convicted of a felony, he was sentenced to four years in the Department of Corrections. He now appeals, contending among other things that reversible error was committed in the trial of the case because the court permitted, over objection, cross-examination of one of defendant’s witnesses as to how many times he had been…