State v. Light

CONVICTION AFFIRMED: SENTENCE VACATED AND CAUSE REMANDED

HOGAN, Judge.

Defendant Kenneth Glenn Light was convicted of manufacturing marijuana in violation of § 195.020.1, RSMo 1978, 1 and his punishment was assessed at imprisonment for a term of five years. Defendant appeals.

The plantation of marijuana was found on a 40-acre farm in Phelps County. The farm was the property of defendant’s mother, Hazel Rosalee Light. According to his mother, the defendant did not live on the premises. Her testimony was that during the period here involved “... he come in off and on — I [couldn’t] tell you just…