Lashley v. State

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The appellant appeals his conviction of possessing cocaine with *673intent to distribute.

The appellant was arrested outside the Tanner Shopping Plaza in Atlanta. The arresting office testified that he and his partner were on plain-clothes detail and had placed the shopping plaza under surveillance for possible drug activity because they had made drug arrests there in the past and because they had received citizen complaints that drug activity was still taking place there. He stated that during the course of this surveillance he observed an individual whom he had previously…