State v. Watson

MONTGOMERY, Chief Judge.

After a jury trial, Gregory W. Watson (Appellant) was convicted of the class D felony of leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident in violation of § 577.060.1 He was subsequently sentenced as a persistent offender to seven years’ imprisonment. Appellant appeals his conviction and sentence based upon three claims of trial court error.

*251On October 3, 1995, Appellant drove his car along North Ingram Road in Sikeston, Missouri. Appellant was driving the vehicle at approximately eighty miles an hour when he went off the road and hit “something.” Appellant’s vehicle…