State v. Taylor

CROW, Presiding Judge.

This case, in the ninth year of an odyssey through the Missouri judiciary, reaches this Court a second time.1

A jury found Appellant, Larry Taylor, guilty of two counts, each a violation of § 195.020.1, RSMo Cum.Supp.19832:

Count I: Manufacturing marihuana; Count II: Possession of more than 35 grams of marihuana.

The trial court sentenced Appellant, as a persistent offender, to imprisonment for twelve years on Count I and six years on Count II, consecutively. Appellant brings appeal 17583 from that judgment.

While appeal 17583 was pending, Appellant commenced a proceeding…