State v. Guess

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

The appellant, known by the name of Guess, is really Eddie Joe Louis, and was charged in Boone County with the class B misdemeanors of peace disturbance and trespass. He was found by the court to be guilty of trespass, § 569.140, RSMo 1986, and sentenced to twenty days in jail with credit given for ten days served. The elements of the crime applicable here are knowingly remaining unlawfully in a building.

On February 11, 1990 the appellant went to the Columbia police station. Officer Fa-giolo went to the lobby to take his complaint, which was about the mistreatment of Guess’s…