STATE v. RILEY

No. 40586.

583 S.W.2d 751 (1979)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Gary Leon RILEY, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Three.

June 26, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William James O'Herin, Guilfoil, Symington, Petzall & Shoemake, St. Louis, for appellant.

John D. Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Paul Robert Otto, Richard Engel, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jefferson City, George A. Peach, Circuit Atty., St. Louis, for respondent.


REINHARD, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from a conviction by a jury for illegal possession of a Schedule I controlled substance, heroin. He was sentenced by the court to serve a term of five years in the Department of Corrections under the Second Offender Act.

On the afternoon of July 8, 1977, in the City of St. Louis, Leon Riley and a companion were stopped by two police officers. They were suspected of leaving the scene of an accident several blocks...

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