STATE v. JACKSON

No. 39134.

576 S.W.2d 756 (1979)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Orville Louis JACKSON, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Four.

January 23, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Hampe, St. Louis, for appellant.

John D. Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Paul Robert Otto, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


ALDEN A. STOCKARD, Special Judge.

Appellant, Orville Louis Jackson, was found guilty by a jury of illegal possession of heroin, and he has appealed from the ensuing judgment.

The only point presented on this appeal is that the trial court erred in failing to sustain appellant's motion for judgment of acquittal because, as appellant asserts, the evidence failed to show that he was "aware of the presence and character of the heroin and was intentionally and...

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