State v. Allen

CRIST, Judge.

Defendant appeals her conviction for possession of a controlled substance as a prior offender. We affirm.

Only a brief recitation of the facts is necessary. On November 2, 1991, at approximately 2:30 a.m., Defendant and several others, including Beverly Parmer, were stopped by police officers in Perry-ville, Missouri. Officer Hayden escorted Defendant to the Sheriff’s Department. Defendant’s purse was searched and nothing unusual was found. However, the officer who searched the purse testified he failed to search a zipped compartment in the purse because he did not notice it.…