State v. Monath

HOWARD, Judge.

A Lafayette County jury convicted Bryan S. Monath (hereinafter “defendant”) of possession of a chemical with the intent to create a controlled substance, § 195.420, RSMo 1994. 1 The trial court then sentenced him as a prior and persistent offender, § 558.016, to ten years imprisonment. Defendant now appeals from his conviction, raising two points on appeal. First, he contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence, in admitting at trial the pseu-doephedrine that the police seized from the vehicle in which he was a passenger, and in admitting the…