State v. Taylor

CROW, Presiding Judge.

A jury found Clarence 0. Taylor (“defendant”) guilty of two counts of involuntary manslaughter, § 565.024, RSMo 1986, and assessed punishment at four years’ imprisonment on each count. The trial court imposed those sentences, ordering that they run consecutively.

Defendant appeals, briefing two points. The first avers the trial court erred in failing to sustain defendant’s motion to suppress the result of a Breathalyzer test; the second asserts the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion for mistrial based upon the prosecutor’s remarks during the cross-examination…