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Criminal Law : DWI – Sufficiency Of Evidence – Hearsay
Stephanie Maniscalco//June 6, 2018//
Where a defendant challenged his conviction in a DWI case, arguing that a call to police from a restaurant employee regarding a drunk driver was inadmissible hearsay, the testimony was admissible to explain subsequent police conduct, and the judgment is affirmed because the evidence was sufficient to show that the defendant was a chronic DWI offender.
Judgment is affirmed.
State v. Sallee (MLW No. 71726/Case No. SD34811 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Lynch, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Greene County, Holden, J. (Nathan Jeremy Aquino, Jefferson City, for respondent) (Samuel E. Buffaloe, Columbia, for appellant).
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