State v. Childress

HANNA, Presiding Judge.

The defendant appeals his conviction of trafficking of marijuana in the first degree, § 195.222.7(1), RSMo Supp.1993,1 a class A felony. The jury assessed punishment at twenty years and the court imposed that sentence in accordance with the verdict. The two issues on appeal are whether the testimony concerning the weight of marijuana was sufficient to qualify the crime as a class A felony and whether the trial court erred by failing to quash the venire or conduct an independent inquiry of the venire because of one venireperson’s response to the prosecutor’s voir dire…