# State v. Baker

> Supreme Court of Missouri · June 9, 1975 · 524 S.W.2d 122

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9767975

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Lawrence BAKER, Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Missouri
- **Decided:** June 9, 1975
- **Citations:** 524 S.W.2d 122; 1975 Mo. LEXIS 357
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Henley
- **Judges:** Finch, Donnelly, Morgan, Holman, Bardgett, Seiler, Henley
- **Cited by:** 115 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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.

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