State v. Garrett

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty on two counts of possessing narcotics and the court sentenced him to consecutive eight-year terms.

On appeal defendant concedes the sufficiency of the state’s evidence of possession but contends the trial court prejudicially erred by admitting irrelevant evidence of police affidavits and a search warrant when he had challenged neither the propriety of his arrest nor the seizure of narcotics.

The substantive evidence was definite. When police officers forcibly entered a house, defendant and others scattered. The police found defendant and…