State v. Buff

GARY M. GAERTNER, SR., Presiding Judge.

Appellant, John Buff, (“appellant”), appeals from the judgment of conviction entered by the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis after a jury found him guilty of one count of assault in the first degree, Section 665.050, RSMo 1994 1 , and one count of armed criminal action, Section 571.015. The trial court found appellant to be a prior and persistent offender pursuant to Section 558.016, and sentenced him to two consecutive thirty-year terms of imprisonment. We dismiss.

This case went to trial before a jury on August 2, 1999. The state rested its case…