Miller v. State

Olly Neal, Judge.

James Luther Miller was convicted by a jury of possession of cocaine and marijuana and sentenced to thirty years’ incarceration on the cocaine-possession conviction. He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in the county jail on the marijuana-possession conviction, and ordered to pay a $1000 fine. He argues on appeal that the trial court erred in refusing to grant his motion for a directed verdict.

A motion for a directed verdict is a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence. Mings v. State, 318 Ark. 201, 884 S.W.2d 596 (1994). The test for determining the sufficiency…