McClellan v. State

Trafficking in cannabis; three years.

At 12:45 p.m. on May 5, 1981, Officer Steven Parrish of the Alexander City Police Department received a telephone call from an informant who told him that between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. that day appellant would be driving through town in a new brown Ford Escort transporting ten pounds of marijuana to someone in another county. There was no evidence of how the informant gained his information, but Officer Parrish testified that the informant was reliable and had provided tips leading to at least one other drug arrest and conviction in the past.

Officer Parrish…