State v. Karnes

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

A jury found defendant Kerry W. Karnes guilty of felonious assault (§ 559.180 RSMo. 1969), and the jury being unable to agree on punishment, the trial court sentenced him to ten years in prison. Defendant appeals, challenging the court’s disqualification of a prospective juror and also the prosecutor’s cross-examination and argument about witnesses defendant had failed to call.

Defendant does not question sufficiency of the state’s evidence: In the early morning hours the prosecutrix was driving home from work, followed by defendant. When she got out of her car defendant…