State v. Brown

PARKER, Judge.

Both charges arose out of a single transaction, and defendant contends that the court erred when it entered judgment on the charge of sale of marijuana after declaring a mistrial on the charge of possession of marijuana with intent to sell. He contends that under the evidence he was either guilty of both offenses or not guilty of both, and that the jury could not logically find him guilty of the offense of sale of marijuana unless it also found that he illegally possessed that marijuana with intent to sell it. From this he reasons that the court should have declared a mistrial…