United States v. Sherman Major Bowles

FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judge:

Sherman Major Bowles appeals his conviction in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia of two counts of possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Bowles’ prosecution arose out of an encounter between Bowles and three law enforcement officials at Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport on May 2,1978. As a result of that encounter, the officers discovered that at the time Bowles carried heroin and cocaine on his person. In due course Bowles was tried before the court,…