Brown v. State

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

Following a jury trial, Craig Brown was convicted of trafficking in cocaine and of obstructing an officer (misdemeanor). Appealing his trafficking conviction only, Brown challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, arguing that no evidence connected him to the cocaine found in the house in whose yard he was standing when the police confronted him. We agree and reverse.

Construed in favor of the verdict, Short v. State, 1 the evidence shows that police persuaded a confidential informant to call Brown to arrange a drug deal for one ounce of cocaine. Brown agreed to the…