Pettway v. State

The appellant, Coleman Pettway, was convicted of trafficking in cocaine, was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, and was fined $50,000. He raises three issues in this appeal from that conviction.

I

The appellant contends that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction for trafficking.

On February 27, 1991, five Mobile County deputy sheriffs executed a search warrant at an apartment on Zeigler Boulevard in Mobile, Alabama. At trial, the State's case-in-chief consisted of the testimony of two of these deputies, Richard Cayton and Barry Dinkins, and the testimony of the drug analyst,…