STATE v. COLLINS

No. 39705.

601 S.W.2d 640 (1980)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. John Maurice COLLINS, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Three.

June 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harris, Kirksey & Thomas, Charles E. Kirksey, Jr., St. Louis, for appellant.

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


CRIST, Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury for the sale of heroin and his punishment assessed at five years imprisonment.

Defendant first asserts that the information under which he was charged was deficient because it failed to allege that he was "knowingly" engaged in the sale of heroin. We do not agree and are of the collective opinion that use in the information of the language "unlawfully and feloniously" was sufficient to put defendant on notice...

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