State v. Parker

SNYDER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction, pursuant to a jury verdict, of assault in the first degree, § 565.050, RSMo 1978, and stealing from a person, § 570.-030(2), RSMo 1978. Appellant was a persistent offender1 and the trial court sentenced him to fifteen years for the assault charge and ten years for stealing, the sentences to be served consecutively.

Appellant relies on three points in which he argues: (1) the trial court improperly refused to give his proposed self-defense instruction; (2) the trial court erroneously refused to instruct the jury that evidence of…