Legal Opinion

Radke v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided December 4, 1973No. 4 Div. 231PublishedCited by 46 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Possession of marihuana: sentence, six years in the penitentiary.

I

The appellant was present in the Burger Inn in Enterprise when State officers staged a dragnet raid. In a storeroom the searchers found a box which held about nineteen pounds of marihuana.

Shortly before this raid a State witness, Officer Freddie Strength had sub rosa approached Marcus Polk, an employee of the Burger Inn. Strength, wearing “blue jeans, shirt and a pair of boots” drove up in a gold Chevrolet. Inside the Inn he conversed with Polk.

Strength went into the storeroom with Polk. Polk got the…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Parks v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1971
  2. Rueffert v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1970
  3. Womack v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1949
  4. Hudson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1947
  5. Grimes v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1954

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3Cited by46 opinions

  1. Donahoo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1986
  2. State v. BowersNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1974
  3. Grubbs v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1984
  4. Jackson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1991
  5. Roberts v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1977

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