Ramsey v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Robin Eugene Ramsey, appeals from a conviction under an indictment charging that he “unlawfully did possess secobarbital sodium and amobarbital sodium, salts of barbital.” The jury returned the following verdict: “We, the jury,’ find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment and assess a fine of $1.00.” The court assessed additional punishment of two years in the penitentiary.

The state’s evidence tended to show that on September 5, 1964, Detectives Romagnano and Mayo of the Mobile Police Department saw defendant sitting at the bar in the Paradise…