Court Opinion

ID: 9767975
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:37:13.995504+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:35.242187
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HENLEY, Judge
(concurring).
I concur and add a word of caution to the trial bench regarding the record that should be made at the time of sentencing.
In a case where, as here, a defendant is convicted of two or more offences at the same time, the terms of imprisonment imposed will run concurrently unless there is a direction of record that they run consecutively. Anthony v. Kaiser, 350 Mo. 748, 169 S.W.2d 47, 49[7-9] (banc 1943). Since the trial judge has the authority from this day on to exercise his discretion in sentencing in cases such as this, he must do so; and, it is imperative that if he determines the sentences should run consecutively that the record show this determination.