STATE v. CUMMINGS (2025)

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Charles Earl CUMMINGS, Appellant.

WD 87205

Decided: November 12, 2025

Before Division One: Gary D. Witt, Presiding Judge, Alok Ahuja, Judge, and Karen King Mitchell, Judge

Catherine L. Hanaway, Attorney General, and Riley A. O'Shaughnessy, Assistant Attorney General, Jefferson City, MO, for Respondent. Shajiah Jaffri, Assistant Public Defender, Kansas City, MO, for Appellant.

Order

Charles Cummings appeals, following a jury trial, his convictions of second-degree murder (Count I), § 565.021, first-degree attempted robbery (Count III), § 570.023, and two counts of armed criminal action (ACA) (Counts II and IV), § 571.015, for which the trial court sentenced him, in accordance with the jury's recommendation, to twenty years for murder, ten years for robbery, and seven and six years, respectively, for the two counts of ACA. The court ordered Counts I and III to run consecutively and Counts II and IV to run consecutively to each other but concurrently with Count I, for an aggregate sentence of twenty-seven years’ imprisonment. Cummings raises a single point on appeal; he argues that the trial court erred in overruling his Batson objection to the State's peremptory strike of Venireperson 38. Finding no error, we affirm. Rule 30.25(b).

Per Curiam:

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