Legal Opinion

Tatum v. State

Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Decided February 2, 2011No. CA CR 10-626PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DAVID M. GLOVER, Judge.

|, Appellant, Mario Tatum, was tried by a jury and found guilty of the offense of possession of cocaine and possession of marijuana (second offense). He was sentenced to six years in the Arkansas Department of Correction on the cocaine conviction and five years on the marijuana conviction. In this appeal, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and the chain of custody on the controlled substances. We affirm.

Trial Testimony

Corporal Larry McMahon of the Arkansas State Police testified that he took evidence related to this case to the crime lab in Little Rock; that…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Jackson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 2010

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Duggar v. StateCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 2013
  2. Curtis v. StateCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 2015
  3. Bowerman v. StateCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 2014

Showing a preview — retrieve the full document via the Exa API.

Powered by the Exa API