STATE v. NISWONGER

No. 50887.

721 S.W.2d 207 (1986)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Gary NISWONGER, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division One.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied December 16, 1986.

Application to Transfer Denied January 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradford Kessler, St. Louis, for appellant.

William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., Carrie Francke, John Munson Morris, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


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...

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