King v. State

CATES, Judge.

Appeal from conviction of possessing marijuana. Sentence five years in penitentiary.

I

We take the following from appellant’s brief:

“ * * * July 2, 1968 * * * George Sullivan * * * observed * * * King, staggering * * * on Davis Avenue, * * * Mobile * * *. Sullivan observed him for thirty-five (35) to forty (40) feet * * * and then pulled the police car over to him, got out of the car and placed him under arrest for public drunkeness. * * * Sullivan testified that the basis of his arrest was an opinion he had formed of King’s drunkeness ‘by the fact that he was staggering down the…