STATE v. HENSLEY

No. 16049.

770 S.W.2d 730 (1989)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John Edward HENSLEY, Defendant-Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division One.

May 22, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Mazzei and James A. Broshot, Steelville, for plaintiff-appellant.

Dan L. Birdsong and Thomas, Birdsong, Clayton & Haslag, P.C., Rolla, for defendant-respondent.


GREENE, Judge.

The State appeals from the trial court's order sustaining the motion of defendant, John Edward Hensley, to suppress items taken by state highway patrolmen from the person of Hensley and his companion, Jeffrey Weber, and from the vehicle in which the two men were sitting, which items the State intended to use in its prosecution of Hensley on a criminal charge of felony possession of cocaine. We affirm.

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