State v. Wilson

MAUS, Judge.

An information alleged the defendant committed the class D felony of promoting prostitution in the third degree in violation of § 567.070. A jury found him guilty. As authorized by the verdict, the court sentenced him to imprisonment for one year and to pay a fine of $2,500.

The defendant attacks the sufficiency of the information. State v. Powell, 717 S.W.2d 548 (Mo.App.1986); State v. Eckard, 655 S.W.2d 596 (Mo.App.1983). A fundamental rule for determining the sufficiency of an information has been often restated. “The test for sufficiency of an indictment is ‘whether it contains…