State v. Whitley

GARY M. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Defendant John Whitley was convicted by a jury of unlawful use of a weapon (exhibiting), RSMo § 571.030.1(4) (1986), for which he was sentenced to one year imprisonment and fined one hundred dollars. On appeal defendant alleges the trial court erred in allowing the prosecutor to elicit testimony from a State’s witness regarding an incident in which defendant stated his anticipation of being convicted and sentenced. Defendant argues that the testimony was irrelevant, prejudicial, and should have been excluded. We affirm.

On the evening of December 2, 1986, four…