Laakkonen v. State

This Court’s opinion of December 21, 2007, is hereby withdrawn and the following opinion is substituted therefor.

The appellant, Laren Edward Laakko-nen,1 was convicted of possession of a controlled substance, crack cocaine, a violation of § 13A-12-212, Ala.Code 1975, and was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. The circuit court suspended the sentence and ordered Laak-konen to serve two years on probation.

The State’s evidence tended to show the following. On September 16, 2003, Investigator Chard Brooks, of the Madison County Sheriffs Department, was notified by an…