State v. Kobel

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Jeffrey H. Kobel was charged with and tried for first degree assault and armed criminal action as an accomplice in an assault upon a bouncer outside a Kansas City bar in December 1993. The jury convicted Mr. Kobel of second degree assault, for which he was sentenced to two years in prison, and armed criminal action, for which he was sentenced to four years in prison.

Mr. Kobel appeals the convictions on the bases of insufficiency of the evidence, failure to submit an instruction on a lesser included offense, and erroneous exclusion from evidence of…