Haynes v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Possession of “marijuana” [sic] for personal use: fine, $500.00 and six months hard labor for the county.

Haynes was indicted in 1973 for possession of “marijuana” on March 17, 1973. The verdict and judgment entry show a finding of guilt of possession of “marijuana”1 for his personal use only. *717See § 401(a) of Act No. 1407, September 16, 1971.

I

Alexander Pope said, among many other things:

“Be not the first by whom the new are tried,

Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”

—Essay on Criticism, Part II, 1. 133

Our Legislature, importuned by siren voices, abandoned a set of drug…