Jones v. United States

KELLY, Associate Judge :

Appellant, convicted by the court of possession of marijuana, 1 alleges in this appeal that the evidence produced at trial was insufficient to support his conviction and, alternatively, that it was error to deny his proffered jury instruction relating to the government’s burden of proving possession of a usable quantity of narcotics. We affirm.

The relevant prosecution testimony was that in the early morning hours of March 12, 1972, appellant was stopped by the police for the traffic offense of driving while intoxicated. In the course of perfecting t'he arrest,…