Alford v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Willie Ben Alford, the appellant, was convicted of possession of marijuana in the first degree and was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment. He was also convicted of three instances of the unlawful distribution of cocaine and sentenced to life imprisonment in each case. On this appeal from those convictions, the appellant contends that his trial was rendered fundamentally unfair when a State prosecutor informed him that no “buy money” was discovered on the appellant at the time of the arrest.

The State presented evidence that on three different occasions, Gary Graves, an…