Legal Opinion
Woodford v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided August 3, 2001No. 20S00-0007-CR-395PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SULLIVAN, Justice.
Defendant William Woodford was convicted of possessing in exeess of three grams of cocaine with intent to deliver after nine rocks were discovered in a stolen truck in which he had been riding. We affirm, finding the drugs were discovered in a permissible inventory search of the truck and sufficient evidence that the weight of the cocaine seized exceeded three grams.
Background
The facts most favorable to the judgment indicate that in the early morning hours on December 24, 1999, Officer Sawyer stopped a truck for a faulty light above the license plate and for failing to stop…
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