State v. Johnson

PLOTKIN, Judge.

Defendant, Antonio R. Johnson, aka Rico Johnson was charged with one count of possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute. A jury found him guilty as charged. He was sentenced to seven years at hard labor.

The single issue raised in this appeal is that the evidence is insufficient to convict him for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, but is sufficient for a lesser responsive verdict of simple possession of cocaine.

On the night of June 5, 1992, Officers Paul Long, Bill Renaudin, Alisa Lockett, Keith Honóre, and Keith Williams were working in the Sixth…