Legal Opinion
State v. Preston
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided June 11, 1979No. 10889PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLANIGAN, Chief Judge.
A jury found defendant Earl Lee Preston guilty of the offense of sodomy (§ 563.230) 1 and recommended a sentence of 25 years’ imprisonment which the trial court imposed. Defendant appeals.
The first of defendant’s six “points relied on,” none of which is valid, is that the trial court erred in receiving into evidence, over defendant’s objection, a jacket and a pair of tennis shoes. The objection was presented initially in a pretrial motion to suppress (§ 542.296 — Laws 1974, § 8, p. 922) on which a hearing was held. The objection, renewed at the trial, was based, in…
2Cases cited39 opinions
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Chimel v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Gilbert v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Kirby v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by14 opinions
- State v. NewberrySupreme Court of Missouri · 1980
- State v. ClarkSupreme Court of Missouri · 1979
- Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1987
- State v. DeesMissouri Court of Appeals · 1982
- State v. TaylorMissouri Court of Appeals · 1985
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