Court Opinion

ID: 9769363
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 14:47:48.465671+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:00.588697
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing
PER CURIAM.
Appellant did not file a brief when this case was submitted. In our opinion, we reviewed all of the assignments of error contained in the motion for a new trial as well as all matters required to be reviewed under Supreme Court Rule 28.02, V.A.M.R. Appellant has filed a motion for rehearing wherein he has only one complaint to make. He claims that the evidence of a previous conviction was insufficient for the application of the second offense statute, Sec. 556.280, V.A.M.S.
It is claimed that the information did not allege “nor (was) evidence adduced in support thereof, that such sentence was complied with, either by pardon, parole or compliance therewith: * * In so contending, appellant has overlooked the fact that the statute, Sec. 556.280, supra, was amended by the legislature in 1959. See Cumulative Annual Pocket Part, Vol. 40, V.A.M.S., p. 10. The statute, on the point in question, as amended reads as follows: “If any person convicted of any offense punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, or of any attempt to commit an offense which, if perpetrated, would be pun*515ishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, shall be sentenced and subsequently placed on probation, paroled, fined or imprisoned therefor, and is charged with having thereafter comitted a felony, he shall be tried and if convicted punished as follows:

The record in this case showed that the defendant Tucker had previously been convicted of robbery, sentenced, and imprisoned. That is all the section of the law requires.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.