Watts v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Jimmie Lee Watts, the appellant, was convicted of the unlawful possession of cocaine and was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment as a habitual offender. On this direct appeal from that conviction he contends that there was no probable cause for his arrest and that the subsequent seizure of cocaine was illegal and that, consequently, the trial court should have granted his motion to suppress the cocaine.

Charles Green of the Mobile Police Department testified that he was patrolling an area on Center Street in Mobile on the evening of December 23,1992. He testified that he…