State v. Black

SHANGLER, Judge.

The defendant appeals a conviction for carrying a concealed weapon and the sentence of one year in the county jail imposed. § 571.115, RSMo 1978. The appeal contends two errors: that the court admitted evidence of a crime separate from the offense under prosecution, and that the demonstration by a witness as to how the weapon was concealed was prejudicial.

The site of the criminal conduct was a carnival area sequestered within the city of Rich Hill for the Fourth of July celebration. In the midst of the crowd, the witness Ruth Black in the company of her mother encountered the…