Weeks v. State

BOWEN, Judge.

Lalon F. Weeks was convicted of the possession of cocaine in violation of Ala. Code 1975, § 13A-12-212, and was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment. On this appeal from that conviction, he contends that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury, as requested, on the weight to be given the testimony of the expert witness who identified the residue as cocaine. We agree.

The State’s evidence tended to show that the appellant, Robert Earl Gilmore, and Jessie Frankie Williams were apprehended in the act of smoking crack cocaine in a van. The cocaine was located inside a…