State v. Reynolds

GARY M. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, William Earl Reynolds, appeals from a jury conviction for possession of a controlled substance, pentazocine, in violation of RSMo § 195.240 (1986). He was sentenced as a persistent offender to a term of fifteen years imprisonment. Defendant raises two points on appeal. He maintains that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to suppress the pentazo-cine which he dropped at the scene of an investigatory stop because the evidence was the fruit of an improper seizure. Defendant also argues that the trial court erred in refusing to quash the…