State v. Barnes

LIMBAUGH, Judge.

Defendant Naomi Ruth Barnes appeals her convictions under § 287.128, RSMo 1994, for workers’ compensation fraud. She initially appealed to the Court of Appeals, Eastern District, challenging, among other things, the constitutionality of § 287.128 on due process grounds. We have exclusive appellate juris diction of appeals challenging the validity of statutes. Mo. Const, art. V, § 3. Therefore, the court of appeals properly transferred the case to this Court. We affirm Barnes’ convictions.

I. FACTS

The State charged Barnes with five counts of committing workers’ compensation…