State v. Platt

ANDREW J. HIGGINS, Special Judge.

Preston Platt was convicted by a jury of felonious distribution to Deanna Sue Warren, a minor, of a quantity of lysergic acid diethylamid, a controlled substance. His punishment was assessed at five years’ imprisonment, and sentence and judgment were rendered accordingly. §§ 195.017, 195.020, 195.200, subd. 1(4), RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S.

Defendant went to trial November 13, 1973, following reversal of a previous conviction on the same charge for failure to grant a new trial when it was learned that Miss Warren perjured herself with respect to a certain letter in…