Beavers v. State

I respectfully dissent from that portion of the unpublished memorandum stating that the trial court’s failure to give a jury charge requested by the appellant, Ralph Ashton Beavers, on the lesser offense of possession of a prescription drug and its giving the State’s requested charge on constructive possession were not preserved because the record does not disclose Beavers’s specific grounds in support of these requested charges.

Beavers was convicted of five counts of trafficking in illegal drugs, violations of § 13A-12-231(3)a, Ala.Code 1975.1 Succinctly, on five separate occasions, Beavers…