State v. Jackson

GUNN, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged in separate counts, tried and convicted of first degree murder and possession of heroin. On appeal, defendant charges: (1) that Rule 24.-04, which allows joinder of offenses and under which defendant was tried, is unconstitutional; (2) that the crimes of murder and possession of heroin did not arise out of the same transaction, requiring that the two charges be severed for separate trial; (3) that the State failed to prove the reliability and accuracy of a neutron activation analysis which established that defendant had recently discharged a…