State v. Taylor

PUDLOWSKI, Judge.

Defendant, Willie Taylor, appeals the conviction of two counts of possession of a controlled substance, § 195.202 RSMo Cum. Supp.1993 for which he was sentenced to two concurrent terms of eight years of imprisonment as a prior drug offender.

We review the facts in a light most favorable to the verdict. On April 14, 1992, St. Louis police officers executed a search warrant on 2004 Adelaide. Detective Vickers of the St. Louis Police Department Narcotics Task Force had obtained the search warrant based upon information from a confidential informant and subsequent surveillance of…