State v. Blaine

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant, Denorval Blaine, was prosecuted on the charge of capital murder. He was convicted, after a jury trial, of the lesser included offense of murder in the second degree. He was sentenced to a term of 49 years’ imprisonment, to run consecutive to the sentence he was currently serving. He appeals from that conviction. We affirm.

Defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence. The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, established that defendant was an inmate at the Missouri Department of Corrections in Pacific, Missouri. Accompanied by…