State v. Williams

Defendant appeals a conviction of the possession of narcotics claiming there was insufficient evidence to connect him with possession of the narcotics and that his motion for a directed verdict should have been allowed. His prime reliance is upon some similarity in the evidence of this case to that of State v. Oare, 1968, 249 Or 597, 439 P2d 885. There is evidence in the instant record to compel a different result than in the Oare case.

In the present case police officers obtained a search warrant authorizing the search of defendant’s person and of a designated house where defendant was…