State v. Gailes

HOUSER, Commissioner.

William Orbrie Gailes, convicted by a jury of illegal possession of a stimulant drug, § 195.240, 1 under the Second Offender Act, § 556.280, and sentenced by the trial judge to six years’ confinement in the penitentiary, has appealed.

There was substantial evidence tending to establish these facts: At 11:15 p. m. Rose Rhodes and a man emerged from the three-story private residence building at 4229 Westminster in the City of St. Louis and walked onto an adjacent parking lot. The building had been under surveillance by St. Louis police officers for approximately one month.…