State v. Gary

DOWD, Judge.

Defendant appeals from the judgments of conviction, after a jury trial, for murder in the first degree, § 565.020.1, RSMo 1986, assault in the second degree, § 565.060, RSMo 1986, and two associated counts of armed criminal action, § 571.015, RSMo 1994. He was sentenced by the court to life imprisonment without possibility of probation or parole for the murder, ten years for the assault and five years each for the armed criminal actions, the terms to be served consecutively. 1 We affirm.

The evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict is as follows. On September 9, 1989,…