State v. LaPlant

BLACKMAR, Judge.

The defendant was convicted under § 195.020, RSMo 1978, on two counts of possession of Schedule II controlled substances. The trial court found that she was a “prior offender” as defined in § 558.016.2, RSMo Cum.Supp.1983, and sentenced her to concurrent terms of ten years on each count. The Court of Appeals transferred the case here because of the “need to re-examine the law regarding the apparent conflict between § 195.200 and Chapter 558.” The defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction, but rather raises issues relating to search…