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- Title: State Missouri v. Earl Lee Preston
- Author : Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District
- Release Date : January 11, 1979
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
Description
A jury found defendant Earl Lee Preston guilty of the offense of sodomy ( § 563.230) 1 and recommended a sentence of 25 years' imprisonment which the trial court imposed. Defendant appeals. The first of defendant's six ""points relied on,"" none of which is valid, is that the trial court erred in receiving into evidence, over defendant's objection, a jacket and a pair of tennis shoes. The objection was presented initially in a pretrial motion to suppress ( § 542.296 Laws 1974, § 8, p. 922) on which a hearing was held. The objection, renewed at the trial, was based, in essence, on the ground that the jacket and shoes were seized by police officers in violation of defendant's rights under § 15 of Art. I of the Constitution of Missouri, and the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.