Legal Opinion
State v. Haynes
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided December 4, 2018No. ED 106007PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAWRENCE E. MOONEY, JUDGE
The defendant, Timothy Haynes, appeals the judgment entered by the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis following his conviction by a jury of unlawful use of a weapon, shooting at a motor vehicle, in violation of section 571.030.1(9) RSMo. (Supp. 2014).1 ,2 The trial court sentenced *783the defendant as a persistent offender to 15 years of imprisonment without parole.
We hold that section 571.030.1(9) is neither ambiguous, nor is it void for vagueness. Furthermore, we cannot read qualifying or restricting language into a statute that is unambiguous. We affirm the trial…
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