State v. Hanson

OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

This drug case requires us to decide the quality of circumstantial evidence necessary to support a conviction for intent to sell. Police searched Gerald Hanson’s house and found methamphetamine, a torch, a scale, pipes, plastic baggies, and other paraphernalia. The state charged Hanson with drug possession but later added the charge of possession with intent to sell, and a jury found him guilty. Hanson appeals his conviction of first-degree controlled substance crime of possession with intent to sell methamphetamine. Because the circumstantial evidence of Hanson’s guilt…