Leasure v. State

CROW, Judge.

Appellant, Ross E. Leasure, brings this appeal from an order denying relief in a proceeding under Rule 24.035.1 Our disposition of the appeal is easier understood after a procedural history of the litigation.

By an amended information in case number CR288-3569FX in the Circuit Court of Camden County, appellant was charged with violating § 195.020, RSMo 1986, by possessing more than 35 grams of marijuana in his house on or about December 3, 1988.

Evidently, appellant was later charged in another Camden County case, CR289-539FX, with violating the same statute by possessing more than…