State v. Jordan

SIMEONE, Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Leandre Jordan, appeals from a judgment and conviction for the offense of carrying a concealed weapon. § 564.610, RSMo 1969. 1 He was sentenced to fifty days in the St. Louis Medium Security Institution by the jury upon an amended information which charged him with unlawfully and feloni-ously carrying concealed about his person a certain deadly and dangerous weapon. We reverse.

The facts are simple and are not in dispute. On August 14, 1971, at approximately 2:30 a. m., two officers of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department were patrolling in their…