State v. Rodgers

VICTOR C. HOWARD, Judge.

The State appeals the trial court’s judgment granting defendant Gregory Allen Rodgers’s motion to dismiss the charge against him for unlawful possession of a firearm in violation of section 571.070 RSMo. In the State’s two points on appeal, it argues that the trial court erred in dismissing the charges because, (1) a valid conceal carry permit is not a defense to the crime of unlawful possession of a firearm in violation of section 571.070 where the defendant was a “fugitive from justice;” and (2) Rodgers was a “fugitive from justice” as a matter of law under the plain…