Barnes v. State

Banke, Judge.

Henry Lee Barnes and Jack Upshaw were convicted of delivering cocaine in violation of the Controlled Substances Act. Barnes filed a pro se appeal, contending in effect that the evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s verdict. He was subsequently appointed an appellate counsel, who filed a separate appeal, enumerating as error the admission of testimony as to the street value of the substance.

The cocaine was recovered from under the driver’s seat of a green Cadillac which Barnes had borrowed earlier the same day from a female with whom he lived. Two undercover detectives,…