Legal Opinion
Keen v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided October 5, 1982No. 64554, 64555PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Pope, Judge.
Richard C. Keen and Paul J. Thompson here appeal their convictions of trafficking in marijuana. The material facts are summarized below.
On June 1,1980 the GBI was tipped by William C. Vickery about a drug smuggling operation in Ben Hill County. Vickery owned a large tract of land along the Ocmulgee River in that county, near Fitzgerald. An airstrip was located on his land which was used by the drug smugglers. Vickery informed the GBI that four men had landed at his airstrip in a small, single engine airplane. Two of them, one later identified as appellant Keen, were staying in a…
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