State v. Starks

HENLEY, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged by information with unlawful possession of a stimulant drug, amphetamine hydrochloride. Section 195.240 (all references to statutes are to RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S., unless otherwise indicated). A jury was waived; he was tried before the court and found guilty; his motion for new trial was overruled and he was sentenced to'imprisonment for five years. Section 195.270. He appeals. The case comes to the writer on reassignment.

*83The information, alleging prior felony-convictions, charged that defendant “ * * on October IS, 1965, at the City of St. Louis…