State v. Jackson

ALDEN A. STOCKARD, Special Judge.

Appellant, Orville Louis Jackson, was found guilty by a jury of illegal possession of heroin, and he has appealed from the ensuing judgment.

The only point presented on this appeal is that the trial court erred in failing to sustain appellant’s motion for judgment of acquittal because, as appellant asserts, the evidence failed to show that he was “aware of the presence and character of the heroin and was intentionally and consciously in possession of it.”

On December 26, 1975 Detective Robert Schaeffer searched a building, the legality of which is not…