State v. Abbott

CROW, Presiding Judge.

A jury found appellant (“Abbott”) guilty of murder in the second degree, § 565.004, RSMo 1978, as charged in Count I of the information, and guilty of stealing a motor vehicle, § 570.030, RSMo 1978, as charged in Count II, and assessed prison sentences of 30 years and 7 years, respectively. The trial court sentenced Abbott to those terms, to run consecutively.

Abbott briefs 10 points, one of which (number 4) is that the trial court erred in denying Abbott’s motion for judgment of acquittal as to Count I at the close of the State’s case, and in denying a similar motion at…