People v. Charles Wilson

Defendant was arrested on March 8, 1968, on a charge of possession of narcotics in violation of MCLA § 335.153 (Stat Ann 1957 Rev § 18.1123). After being tried by a jury in Detroit’s Recorder’s Court, he was found guilty and sentenced to not less than three and a half years imprisonment.

The facts of the case are as follows. At approximately 2 a.m., two police officers were cruising in a scout car on Linwood in Detroit when they saw two men standing in the recessed doorway of a closed liquor store with their backs to the street. The officers observed light being emitted from the top of the…