Racine v. State

ALMON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of possessing marijuana and subsequently sentenced to a ten year prison term.

Mobile Police Officer Charles Stuart, while patrolling an upper-class residential neighborhood, spotted appellant and one Paul Wesley Gentry, the driver, riding in an old automobile with loud mufflers. Appellant and companion each had long hair and appellant had a “straggly beard.” The streets through the neighborhood were lightly travelled; the hour was late, 11:30 P.M.; and Officer Stuart, thoroughly familiar with habitual travelers through the neighborhood, surmised that…