Turner v. State

John Mauzy Pittman, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a conditional guilty plea to possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, for which appellant was sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment. On appeal, he argues that the police officer did not have probable cause to conduct the search that disclosed over fifty pounds of cocaine concealed in a false bed of the pickup truck in which he was a passenger. We affirm.

The record shows that neither the driver nor the passenger owned the vehicle but that both were using it with the permission of a third party for whom they were…