STATE OF FLORIDA v. ALEXANDER LEE

The state appeals the trial court’s entering a judgment of acquittal after a jury found appellant guilty of possession of cocaine. We find that, when viewing the facts in the light most favorable to the state, the trial court erred in granting the judgment of acquittal and, as such, we reverse.

Police stopped appellee’s car after seeing him park at a house, whereupon a man entered the passenger side of the car for a few minutes and then left. The officers’ subsequent search of the car revealed a small rock of crack cocaine on the sliding track under the driver’s seat. The evidence at trial…