State v. Harvey

Walter T. Cox, III, Acting Associate Justice

(dissenting) :

I agree that simple possession of marijuana is not an act of baseness, vileness or depravity in the social duties which a man owes to his fellow man or to society in general and therefore not a crime of moral turpitude and I further agree that evidence of such conviction would be inadmissible as such; but, being of the view that no probable prejudice resulted to the defendant from the admission of the witness’s testimony, I respectfully dissent.

The entire colloquy between the Assistant Solicitor and the alibi witness concerning this…