Clark v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence on a jury trial on an indictment that charged in pertinent part that “on, to-wit: December 31, 1977, Richard Clark did unlawfully possess marihuana, one of the controlled substances set out in the Alabama Uniform Controlled Substances Act.” The court sentenced him to imprisonment for fifteen years.

The “STATEMENT OF THE CASE” contained in brief of counsel for appellant is accepted in the brief of counsel for appellee as “substantially correct.” We now quote the first two paragraphs of said…