State v. Burr

BEN F. PYLE, Special Judge.

Appellant, Dennis William Burr, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged with selling a controlled substance (marihuana) under the Habitual Criminal Act in an information substituted for an indictment. The jury found defendant guilty and the court sentenced him under the Habitual Criminal Act to five years’ imprisonment in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

D. W. Lipp, an undercover narcotics agent for the Missouri Highway Patrol, testified that while working undercover in Springfield, Missouri, on January 11, 1973, he first met and became acquainted…