STATE v. MURPHY

Nos. 60137, 63533.

872 S.W.2d 129 (1994)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Victor L. MURPHY, Appellant. Victor L. MURPHY, Movant-Appellant, v. STATE of Missouri, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Two.

March 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond L. Legg, Office of the State Public Defender, Columbia, for appellant.

Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Atty. Gen., Elizabeth L. Ziegler, Traci J. Sanders, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


KAROHL, Judge.

Defendant was charged, jury tried and convicted of assault first degree and armed criminal action. The evidence supported a finding defendant stabbed Michael Robinson in the abdomen and cut him across the chest. The jury rejected defendant's claim the assault was justified by a fear for the safety of his companion and himself. He was sentenced as a persistent offender to concurrent twenty year terms to be served consecutive to a previous Illinois sentence...

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