Mahone v. State

Phipps, Judge.

Marvis Mahone was convicted of sale of cocaine and of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a public housing project. The state presented evidence that a City of Hampton police officer assigned to a multi-jurisdictional drug task force operating in Spalding County made an undercover buy of cocaine from Mahone near the Spalding Heights housing project in the City of Griffin. In this appeal of his convictions, Mahone challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt his identity as the seller, to prove that the…