Copeland v. State

OPINION

RUCKER, Judge.

In this interlocutory appeal Defendant-Appellant Bryan L. Copeland challenges the trial court’s order denying his motion to dismiss the State’s charge of conspiracy to deal in cocaine. Copeland raises a single issue for our review which we rephrase as whether Copeland’s voluntary payment of the Controlled Substance Excise Tax bars his subsequent prosecution for conspiracy to deal in cocaine.

We affirm.

On October 31, 1995 the State charged Copeland with conspiracy to deal in cocaine as a Class A felony.1 On April 15, 1996 Copeland filed in open court a receipt from the…