State v. Riley

REINHARD, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from a conviction by a jury for illegal possession of a Schedule I controlled substance, heroin. He was sentenced by the court to serve a term of five years in the Department of Corrections under the Second Offender Act.

On the afternoon of July 8, 1977, in the City of St. Louis, Leon Riley and a companion were stopped by two police officers. They were suspected of leaving the scene of an accident several blocks away. After being identified as the passengers of the abandoned car, both were placed in a police van and transported to the Sixth District…