State v. Reed

CRAIN, Judge.

The defendant, Anthony Reed, was charged by bill of information with possession of alprazolam, a violation of LSA-R.S. 40:969C. He pled guilty as charged and was sentenced to five years at hard labor with credit for time served. The defendant has appealed, urging two assignments of error.

Because there was no trial, the following facts were derived from the police report filed into the record. On February 4, 1989, Baton Rouge police officers observed the defendant drop a brown paper bag and a clear cellophane bag. The officers stopped the defendant and retrieved the bags. The…