State v. Niswonger

CRIST, Judge.

Appeal from a jury conviction of attempted escape from confinement. Defendant was sentenced by the court to a term of five years’ imprisonment, to be served consecutively to a pre-existing twenty-year sentence. We affirm.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. Following his sentencing to fifteen years’ imprisonment on three counts of robbery, defendant was being led back to the holding area in the St. Louis County Courthouse. As they passed a fire exit, which appears to have been the last access to the street level between defendant and the holding area, defendant…