State v. Kerfoot

REINHARD, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of possession of marijuana in a court-tried case, in violation of § 195.020, RSMo.1978, and sentenced to a term of three years imprisonment. He appeals. We affirm.

On October 21, 1982, Verlin Waide, the Sheriff of Clark County, Sergeant Belshe of the Missouri Highway Patrol and others were flying in a helicopter near Fairmont, Missouri. The helicopter was glass-enclosed. The officers were in uniform. They spotted what they believed to be marijuana growing adjacent to a cornfield on the Noona Kerfoot farm. Defendant was about 600 feet from the marijuana.…