Warren v. State

COBB, Judge.

This case was originally assigned to another judge on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. It was reassigned to Judge Cobb on January 17, 1995.

Frederick Lamar Warren, the appellant, was convicted of three counts of the sale of a controlled substance i.e., crack cocaine. He was sentenced to 12 years in the penitentiary on each count. The appellant raises one issue on appeal. He contends that the trial court erred in admitting the cocaine into evidence because, he says, the State did not prove a proper chain of custody.

In Ex parte Holton, 590 So.2d 918, 920 (Ala.1991), the Alabama…