State v. Dowell

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Judge.

Patsy Dowell was convicted in the Sullivan County Court for possession of more than thirty grams of cocaine for resale. She was sentenced as a Range I, standard offender to eighteen (18) years imprisonment.

In February, 1983 officers in the Kings-port Police Department received information that defendant was keeping cocaine in her safety deposit box at the King Giant Plaza Branch of the First American Bank in Kingsport. Acting under authority of a search warrant they recovered Five Hundred Twenty-One Dollars ($521) in cash and a large plastic bag labeled “Encounter” which…