State v. Armstrong

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

A jury found defendant Leonard Armstrong guilty of carrying a concealed weap*718on. Section 571.115, RSMo. 1978. The trial court sentenced defendant as a former felon to five years’ imprisonment.

Defendant has appealed, contending the court erred in admitting evidence of his pre-arrest activity in “casing” other retail stores, and in failing to direct an acquittal because evidence of concealment came from distant observation through binoculars. We deny both contentions and affirm.

The directly incriminating evidence came from two plain-clothes police officers. Using binoculars…