State v. Stegall

CRANDALL, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Tim Stegall, appeals from his convictions following a jury trial for two counts of possessing contraband on the premises of a county jail. Defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for four years and a consecutive term of seven years; said sentences to run consecutively with the sentence defendant is presently serving. Defendant claims the verdict directing instructions erroneously omitted necessary elements of the charged offenses. We affirm.

Defendant was a prisoner in the St. Francois County Jail on September 8, 1987. He was searched by prison officials…