Evans v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

The defendant, Billy Joe Evans, appeals his conviction of traf ficking in marijuana, unlawful possession of alcoholic beverages and possession of a distilling apparatus. Sheriff Larry Sanders of Hart County, Georgia, had received information about marijuana growing on property adjacent to a mobile home in which the defendant lives. He placed the property under observation and then obtained a search warrant. It was issued in the name of Manuel Evans, the defendant’s father. The sheriff was assisted by GBI agents in executing the search warrant. After the defendant…