Woman appeals conviction in methadone overdose case

A St. Mary, Missouri, woman has taken her case to the Eastern District Court of Appeals.

Sandra Dallas, 58, recently began serving a 52-year sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections for her role in supplying methadone to two men hours before they died.

Dallas was sentenced last month in St. Francois County court by Judge Wendy Wexler Horn. Her appeal was filed shortly afterward.

She was accused of supplying methadone to Travis M. Welty, 42, and Darin G. Reid, 55, on Oct. 19, 2013, hours before the men died. She was charged in December 2013 after Michelle Boner contacted the Perryville Police Department to report the Perry County men's deaths may have been caused by an overdose of the methadone supplied by Dallas.

A jury found Dallas guilty on several counts in April, though it acquitted her of two counts of second-degree murder.

Wexler Horn ordered Dallas to serve terms of 15 years each on three felony counts of distribution of a controlled substance and seven years for felony first-degree involuntary manslaughter, to run consecutively.

Pertinent address:

St. Mary, Mo.

Perryville, Mo.