Platt v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted and sentenced for trafficking in cocaine on September 21, 1989. Thereafter, on February 26, 1990, the trial court entered an order granting defendant’s motion for a new trial.

In granting the defendant’s new trial motion, the trial court observed that at trial the prosecution only “adduced testimony from Susan Strickland, of the State Crime Lab, that the substance which she tested was ‘positive for cocaine,’ and weighed more than 28 grams.” Thus, the trial court concluded that the State failed to prove defendant was in possession of cocaine or…