State v. Oliver

PREWITT, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted following jury trial of second-degree robbery and first-degree burglary and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for each offense, the sentences to be served consecutively. He *46appeals, presenting two points, one in a brief filed by his counsel and one in a pro se brief.

The point presented by his counsel contends that the trial court erred in giving the verdict directing instruction patterned after MAI-CR2d 23.04 in three respects:(1) Paragraph second of the instruction contained two of the alternatives provided in MAI-CR2d 23.04 paragraph…