Opinion
Nos. 68239, 70296
OPINION FILED: October 29, 1996
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, HON. THOMAS F. McGUIRE.
David C. Hemingway, St. Louis, Gary E. Brotherton, Columbia, for Defendant-Appellant.
Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Atty. Gen., John M. Morris, III, Joanne E. Joiner, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jefferson City, for Plaintiff-Respondent.
Before Robert G. Dowd, Jr., P.J., and James R. Reinhard and Gary M. Gaertner, JJ.
ORDER
Defendant appeals from his conviction for one count of second-degree burglary, RSMo 1994. The trial court sentenced him as a prior and persistent offender, § 558.016, to fifteen years' imprisonment, to run concurrently with the sentence in an unrelated case. Defendant alleges the trial court erred when it did not grant a mistrial sua sponte during closing argument after a personal attack by the prosecutor on Defendant's attorney. Defendant also alleges error in the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion without a hearing. No error of law appears. An extended opinion would have no precedential value. The parties have been furnished with a memorandum outlining the reasons for this order affirming the judgments of the trial and motion courts. Rules 84.16(b) and 30.25(b).