Parks v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

Appellant, Rayford A. Parks, appeals from a conviction for the offense of illegal possession of narcotics. Punishment was fixed at ten years in the penitentiary.

The evidence for the state tends to show that on the night of February 18, 1970, the automobile in which the defendant was riding as a passenger was stopped by the Phenix City Police in Phenix City, Russell County, Alabama, and the driver, Willie Clyde Parks, defendant’s brother, was placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated.

Officer Donaldson testified that while attempting to remove the car from the…