State v. Denny

Defendant Carl W. Denny was charged as a persistent offender (§ 558.016-2) 1 with having committed the class A felony of first degree robbery (§ 569.020) in Taney County on February 16, 1980. The jury found defendant guilty and assessed punishment at imprisonment for a term of thirty years. § 558.011-1(1). Albeit the court found defendant to be a persistent offender, it imposed a sentence in accordance with the jury’s verdict but specified it was to “run consecutively with the sentence for first degree robbery in Greene County in its Case No. CR580-62 — FX—2.” Defendant appealed.

The facts…