Lyons v. State

Smith, Judge.

Anthony Lyons was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to possess more than an ounce of marijuana.

Construed to support the verdict, the evidence at trial showed that in January 1993, during a routine check of international mail by U. S. Customs Service agents at Miami International Airport, a drug detection dog alerted to a package sent from Jamaica to Lyons at an address in Fayetteville, Georgia. Customs agents opened the package and found it contained wooden cat figurines. When x-rays revealed there was a substance inside the figurines, a hole was drilled in one figurine and the…