Wooten v. State

Elijah Wooten appeals from separate judgments of conviction entered by the Pi-nellas County Circuit Court on separate jury verdicts of guilt rendered after a consolidated trial of two informations against him for felony.

Information No. 16,778 filed in said Court charged defendant Wooten with unlawful possession of barbiturates. Information No. 16,780 charged him with unlawful possession of certain narcotic drugs, to-wit: morphine. The filing of the charges followed the seizure of the barbiturates and morphine as a result of a search by St. Pe-tersburg police officers, under search warrant, of…