Legal Opinion

Kenny v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided May 15, 1973No. 1 Div. 316PublishedCited by 23 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Selling marijuana: sentence, nine years imprisonment.

I

A State undercover agent got in touch with an informant as to buying marijuana. Later the agent picked up the informant. The two drove in the agent’s car to a rendezvous where a man in a Volkswagen told the agent to follow him to a darker place. There with the informant in his car the agent bought $150 worth of marijuana (fifteen “lids”) from the appellant who had come from the Volkswagen into the agent’s car. Thus, from the State’s case the informant was present throughout the entire transaction.

The trial judge…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Roviaro v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  2. McCray v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. Edwards v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1920
  4. Wright v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1954
  5. Boswell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1973

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3Cited by23 opinions

  1. Danny Ray Mylar, A/K/A Danny Ray Miles v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
  2. State v. HavertyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1980
  3. Thornton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1980
  4. Cassell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1975
  5. State v. VailSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1979

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