Legal Opinion
Burnette v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided October 14, 1986No. 4 Div. 668PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
TYSON, Judge.
Terry Cornelius Burnette was indicted for the unlawful sale of marijuana in violation of § 20-2-70, Code of Alabama 1975. The jury found the appellant “guilty as charged in the indictment.” He was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment.
The facts of this case as presented by the State can be briefly summarized.
On the evening of May 22, 1984, Dennis Hobbs, a narcotics investigator with the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department was working undercover with the Covington County Sheriff’s Department. On that night, Hobbs and an informant named “Frankie” went to an apartment in the Timmerman…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Hampton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- United States v. Larry Hammond, A/K/A Larry HooverCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- William Clayton Pierce v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- United States v. Raymond E. KaminskiCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Davis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1990