State v. Banks

PHILIP M. HESS, Judge.

Introduction

Monique Banks (Defendant) appeals the Circuit Court of St. Louis City’s judgment of conviction entered after a jury found Defendant guilty of first-degree assault and armed criminal action. Defendant claims the trial court erred by: (1) submitting a defense of others instruction that omitted “from the acts” of the victim and failed to include any reference to multiple assailants; and (2) permitting cumulative and prejudicial testimony of the victim’s injury to which Defendant was willing to stipulate. We affirm.

Factual Background

In the early morning hours of…