State v. Cross

BERREY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of assault of a law enforcement officer in the first degree, § 565.081, RSMo 1986; assault of a law officer in the second degree, § 565.082; *791robbery in the second degree, § 569.030; tampering in the first degree, § 569.080.1(2) and armed criminal action, § 571.015. Appellant was sentenced as a prior and persistent offender to life imprisonment plus 80 years. Appellant’s Rule 29.15 motion was denied following an evidentiary hearing.

Rick Ring and Michael Chick are deputies on the Johnson County Sheriffs Department. On November 27, 1990, they…