State v. Taylor

HANNA, Judge.

The defendant, Phillip Todd Taylor, was charged with the class A felony of first-degree assault, § 565.050, RSMo 1994. On February 11, 1998, the defendant was tried before a jury in the Cole County Circuit Court, and was found guilty of first-degree assault. The trial court sentenced the defendant, as a prior offender, to fifteen years in prison, to run concurrently with the sentence he was already serving. This appeal follows.

The issue on appeal concerns the defendant’s confession and the procedural mechanism to determine whether it was voluntary. The defendant contends that the…