State v. Welch

TURNAGE, Judge.

Roy Welch was found guilty by a jury of possessing a weapon in the Missouri State Penitentiary in violation of § 217.360.1(4) RSMo Supp.1983 and of assault in the first degree in violation of § 565.050, RSMo 1978. On finding that Welch was a dangerous offender the court fixed punishment at ten years on the weapons charge and twenty-five years on the assault charge with such sentences to run concurrently with each other, but consecutively to the sentence Welch was already serving. Welch contends the court erred in failing to excuse a member of the venire for cause; by refusing…