Missouri Laws 143.946 – Prior conviction, effect of
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 143.946
- Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
If any person convicted of an offense, or of the attempt to commit an offense under sections 143.911, 143.921, 143.931, or 143.941 is charged thereafter with having committed or having attempted to commit a subsequent offense under such sections, and is convicted, he shall be punished by imprisonment by the department of corrections and human resources for a term of not less than five nor more than ten years. If the prior conviction is appealed, then this section shall not apply until after the judgment is affirmed or the appeal is dismissed.