STATE v. BECK

No. 51142.

745 S.W.2d 205 (1987)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Richard BECK, Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Five.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied January 20, 1988.

Application to Transfer Denied March 15, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis C. Crawford, Alan G. Kimbrell, Rosecan and Kimbrell, St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.

William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., Elizabeth A. Levin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for plaintiff-respondent.


CARL R. GAERTNER, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of possession of more than thirty-five grams of marijuana, in violation of section 195.020, RSMo., 1986, and sentenced as a persistent offender to ten years in prison. Defendant appeals this conviction, claiming that: (1) the trial court erred in allowing testimony concerning his passenger's possession of valium; (2) it was prosecutorial misconduct for the state, in closing argument, to comment on the absence and possible...

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