STATE v. HARLSTON

No. 38023.

565 S.W.2d 773 (1978)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Melvin HARLSTON, Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, Division Three.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied May 9, 1978.

Application to Transfer Denied June 15, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Gilden, St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.

John D. Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Preston Dean, Robert M. Sommers, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jefferson City, George A. Peach, Circuit Atty., Henry J. Fredericks, Asst. Circuit Atty., St. Louis, for plaintiff-respondent.


KELLY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis in a jury tried case wherein the appellant, Melvin Harlston, was found guilty of violating § 121.270 subsection 2 V.A.M.S.—Tampering with a Voting Machine—and was sentenced to be confined in the custody of the Missouri Department of Corrections for a period of five years. We affirm.

The evidence offered by the state during the jury trial supports...

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