Burns v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant was charged in an indictment with the unlawful possession of “Marihuana, one of the controlled substances enumerated in Title 22, Section (258) (29) (D) (Schedule 1), known as the Alabama Uniform Controlled Substances Act.” A jury found him guilty and also found that “he did not possess it just for the purpose of his personal use only.” After a pre-sentence investigation and obviously careful consideration by the court of defendant’s application for probation, the court sentenced him to six years imprisonment in the penitentiary…