State v. Idlebird

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Defendant Sandra Idlebird was convicted of first degree assault, § 565.050, RSMo 1986, and armed criminal action, § 571.015, RSMo 1986. 1 The jury found she set fire to the bed in which her husband’s two year old daughter, Brittainy, was sleeping, causing Brittainy serious physical injury. Defendant appeals her conviction on the grounds that: (1) there was insufficient evidence to sustain her conviction; (2) it was plain error to admit evidence of her prior conviction for assault in the Netherlands for impeachment purposes; (3) it was error to convict her of armed…