State v. Hood

Defendant has appealed from a judgment of conviction of the crime of unlawful possession of cocaine hydrochloride and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

Numerous assignments of error are specified, but in the view that we take of the case only one—the sufficiency of the evidence to justify the conviction, raised by defendant on motion for a directed verdict—need be considered.

The evidence shows that two federal narcotic agents, Williams and Welliver, in company with MeNabb and Wood, and James Brennan, who was jointly charged with defendant, entered a one-story frame house at 35…