State v. Hedges

GARY M. GAERTNER, SR., Presiding Judge.

Appellant, Bruce T. Hedges (“Defendant”), appeals the judgment of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County finding him guilty, after a jury trial, of domestic assault in the second degree, section 565.073, RSMo 2000. 1 Defendant was sentenced to two years of imprisonment in the Missouri Department of Corrections. We affirm.

The following is the evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court’s decision:

On the morning of March 12, 2004, Defendant and his wife, Joann Hedges (“Wife”) got into a fight. In the course of the fight, Defendant bit off a…