State v. Stigall

HOGAN, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Stephen Stigall was convicted of manufacturing marihuana in violation of § 195.020.1, RSMo Supp.1983. A jury assessed his punishment at imprisonment for a term of five years. The defendant appeals. His assignments of error, slightly paraphrased, are: (1) that the information was fatally defective in that it charged only “manufacturing” marihuana without particularizing the specific act with which the defendant was charged. This is error rendering the information fatally defective, defendant says, because the word “manufacture” as used in § 195.020 is a generic…