STATE v. HALL

No. 38118.

553 S.W.2d 497 (1977)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Anthony T. HALL, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, Division One.

June 21, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Brown, St. Louis, for appellant.

John D. Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Paul Robert Otto, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, George A. Peach, Circuit Atty., William M. Frain, Jr., Asst. Circuit Atty., St. Louis, for respondent.


CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

On unchallenged evidence a jury found defendant guilty of tampering with a motor vehicle and he was sentenced to a year's imprisonment. He appeals, contending the trial court improperly denied his motion for new trial because of the state's allegedly improper closing argument. Defendant had not objected to the argument at trial.

The sufficiency of the state's evidence is unchallenged. In closing argument state's counsel obtusely referred...

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