Clenney v. State

COLEMAN, Justice.

Defendant was convicted for illegal possession of narcotics; Title 22, Chapter 8, Code 1940. He appealed to the Court of Appeals where the judgment of conviction was reversed. 198 So.2d 289. The state applied for certiorari to the Court of Appeals and we granted the writ.

The Court of Appeals reversed on the ground that the trial court erred in admitting, over defendant’s objection, certain evidence, to wit, narcotics found in an automobile, in which defendant was sitting under the wheel, while the automobile was parked at Bienville Sauare in the City of Mobile.

The narcotics…