State v. Briggs

FINCH, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was prosecuted under the Second Offender Act (§§ 556.280 and 556.-290) 1 for striking, beating and wounding a police officer of Riverside, Missouri, in violation of § 557.215, RSMo Supp.1967, V.A.M.S. The trial court, having conducted a hearing outside the presence of the jury, found the Second Offender Act applicable and sentenced defendant to imprisonment for two years after he was convicted by the jury of assaulting a police officer. Defendant appeals. We affirm.

This case comes to the writer on reassignment.

The evidence, viewed most favorably to the State,…