State v. Neighbors

Direct appeal from jury conviction for forgery and sentencing of ten years pursuant to the Second Offender or Habitual Criminal Act, § 556.280, RSMo (1969). Sentence entered July 7,1977. Motion for new trial timely filed and overruled.

Appellant raises two points on his appeal set forth as follows:

I

“The trial court erred in sentencing Appellant pursuant to the Second Offender Act (§ 556.280 R.S.Mo.) insofar as the information filed in the cause was defective and insufficient to confer such jurisdiction upon the court due to the fact that the information failed to allege that the crime of which…