State v. Keenan

GREENE, Judge.

After jury-trial, Grant Joseph Keenan was convicted of the class B felony of assault in the first degree, § 565.050,1 and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment as punishment for the crime. The information charged that Keenan “attempted to kill or cause serious physical injury to Shane E. Glidewell by stabbing him.”

Keenan appealed that conviction, contending that (1) the evidence was insufficient to sustain his conviction, (2) the trial court erred in failing to declare a mistrial after the prosecutor, on cross-examination, improperly questioned Keenan concerning a municipal…