Spruce v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

Appellant, Lincoln Spruce, was convicted of the offense of unlawful possession of narcotic drugs, and was sentenced to prison for a term of five years. Thereafter his petition for a writ of coram nobis was granted and a new trial was had on December 16, 1965, at which time he was again found guilty and was sentenced to a five-year prison term.

J. W. Jones, a police officer of the City of Birmingham, testified that on December 7, 1959, he was assigned to narcotics investigation and on that day he made an investigation at 508, 12th Street, North, in Birmingham; that Thomas…