Jones v. State

The defendant was indicted and convicted for the unlawful possession of marijuana in violation of § 20-2-70, Code of Alabama (1975). His sentence was seven years' imprisonment. The only issue on appeal concerns the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction.

On the afternoon of June 6, 1981, Talladega County Sheriff Jerry Studdard and Deputy Sheriff Terry Brewer discovered a small cultivated marijuana patch in a wooded area of Talladega County. Hearing a chain saw in the distance, the two officers proceeded in that direction. While traveling on an old logging road, Sheriff Studdard…