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Criminal Law: Drug Possession-Sufficiency of Evidence

Staff Report//May 6, 2020//

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Criminal Law: Drug Possession-Sufficiency of Evidence

Criminal Law: Drug Possession-Sufficiency of Evidence

Staff Report//May 6, 2020//

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Where a defendant challenged his conviction for the possession of drugs and paraphernalia, arguing that there was insufficient evidence that he knowingly possessed methamphetamine residue on a cut straw, the judgment is affirmed because the defendant’s knowledge of the drug’s presence and nature was reasonably inferred from his actual possession of the substance, and there was sufficient evidence that the cut straw was drug paraphernalia and that the defendant was aware of the nature of the drug and the paraphernalia.

Judgment is affirmed.

State v. Gehring (MLW No. 74970/Case No. WD82508 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Pfeiffer, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Randolph County, Hayes, J. (Eric S. Schmitt and Justin Moody,  Jefferson City, for respondent) (Katie Curry, Columbia, for appellant).

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