State v. Dickens

GRIMM, Judge.

In this jury tried case, defendant appeals his conviction of two counts of sale of a schedule I controlled substance, marijuana, in violation of § 195.020 RSMo 1986, and his sentence, as a persistent offender, to two concurrent seven year terms.

There are two allegations of error. First, that the trial court erred in refusing to submit defendant’s instruction on entrapment since he properly injected that issue. We disagree, because there was no evidence of entrapment, and thus defendant was not entitled to such an instruction. Second, that the trial court erred in finding that §…