State v. Harris

SATZ, Judge.

A jury convicted defendant, Jerome Harris, of murder, second degree, § 565.021 RSMo 1986 1 , and armed criminal action, § 571.015. The court sentenced him as a prior and persistent offender to a total of fifty years imprisonment.

Defendant appeals from his convictions and sentences and from the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion. We affirm.

Defendant makes two threshold, interrelated arguments. He argues that the state failed to make a submissible case on murder, second degree, and, if a submissible case were made on that charge, he argues, the trial court improperly refused to…