Johnson v. State

Appellant Wilbur Allen Johnson was convicted of possession of narcotics and possession of an unconventional lottery slip by the court sitting without a jury and sentenced to five years imprisonment for the narcotics charge and six months imprisonment for the lottery charge, the sentences to be concurrent and to run consecutive to a ten-year sentence received in another case. On this appeal appellant claims that he was illegally arrested and that, consequently, the narcotics seized from his person at that time should not have been admitted into evidence because the search was not incident to a…