State v. Achter

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Defendant was convicted of the felony of manslaughter (in the operation of a motor vehicle) by the verdict of a jury. The occurrence was on Interstate Highway 57, about 2.8 miles east of the Sikeston, Missouri, interchange, in Mississippi County. Upon a charge of being a second offender, heard and determined by the court outside the hearing of the jury, defendant’s punishment was subsequently set at ten years imprisonment in the Department of Corrections.

The dispositive issue on this appeal is whether the court committed reversible error in defining “culpable…