State v. Edwards

Appellant David Edwards suffered a jury conviction of two counts of forgery, Section 570.090, RSMo 1986, and two counts of receiving stolen property, Section 570.080, RSMo 1986. The trial court found appellant to be a persistent offender, Section 558.016, RSMo 1986, sentenced him to consecutive twelve-year terms of imprisonment on each forgery count and a concurrent sentence of one year for the receiving stolen properly offense. On appeal, appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction but contends (1) that the trial court erred in giving an instruction…