State v. Williamson

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction for unlawful possession of a controlled substance (psilocybin mushrooms), ORS 475.752(3). He assigns error to the court’s denial of his motion for a judgment of acquittal (MJOA) on that count.1 We conclude that there is evidence to support the conviction on a theory that defendant aided and abetted others and, therefore, that the trial court correctly denied the MJOA. Accordingly, we affirm.

It is undisputed that defendant drove his friends Ryan and Kelly to the Bayocean Spit, where he remained while Ryan and Kelly spent several hours harvesting…