Duvall v. State

Thompson, Justice.

This case comes before the Court following a grant of certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Duvall v. State, 305 Ga. App. 545 (699 SE2d 761) (2010). The question posed on certiorari is whether the Court of Appeals erred

in affirming the defendant’s convictions for possession of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance not in its original container, and in particular, in construing OCGA §§ 16-13-30 (a) and 16-13-75 not to require the defendant to know that the pills he possessed were a controlled substance.

Because we find that the Court of Appeals did…