State v. Childress

CARL R. GAERTNER, Judge.

Defendant was found guilty of illegally possessing a Schedule I Controlled Substance in violation of section 196.020, RSMo. 1986. Defendant appeals on two points: (1) the trial court erred by refusing to sustain appellant’s motion to strike for cause eight venirepersons; and (2) the trial court erred by overruling defendant’s motions for acquittal because the state failed to prove that defendant knowingly and intentionally possessed the controlled substance. We affirm.

The state’s witnesses testified as follows. On the afternoon of May 16, 1986, two plainclothes…