State v. Cummings

SPINDEN, Judge.

Rederick Cummings appeals his convictions for offering violence to a corrections officer, § 217.185 RSMo 1986, and attempted rape, § 564.011, RSMo 1986. Cummings claims that the trial court erred in overruling his objection to the state’s peremptory challenge to a venireperson and in denying his Rule 29.15 motion. We affirm.

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence established that on March 24, 1989, at approximately 9:00 A.M., Cummings, an inmate at the penitentiary, entered the office of the prison counselor and asked for some deposit…