State v. Brooks

TITUS, Judge.

After a two-day jury trial, defendant was found guilty of selling marijuana (also spelled marihuana) on April 29, 1981, in Springfield, Missouri, in violation of § 195.-020 1 and was court-sentenced as a prior offender (§ 558.016) to imprisonment for a term of eight yeai’S. This appeal ensued.

Defendant does not here challenge the sufficiency of the evidence. Ergo we examine two points relied on that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to dismiss the charge because (1) the state denied him a speedy trial in contravention of the mandates of the Sixth Amendment of the…