Bassett v. State

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The appellant was indicted on June 14, 1985, for trafficking in cocaine, based on allegations that, on June 6, 1985, he “did knowingly bring into this state and [was] knowingly in actual possession of more than 400 grams of a mixture containing cocaine.” He was tried before a jury on that charge and was found guilty. That conviction was affirmed on appeal, see Bassett v. State, 181 Ga. App. 597 (353 SE2d 48) (1987) (cert. den.), but was ultimately vacated in habeas corpus proceedings on the ground that the definition of cocaine trafficking, as set forth in OCGA §…