People v. Gloria Williams

Defendant, Gloria Mae Williams, was convicted by a jury of control of heroin, MCLA 335.153; MSA 18.1123.1 She was sentenced to a prison term of 32 to 48 months and appeals as of right. We reverse.

At trial, the prosecutor introduced testimony showing that defendant was arrested in the living room of the upstairs flat of a two-flat house she owned. Three tinfoil packets containing heroin were discovered in a jewelry box in her bedroom. *755Defendant testified in her own behalf, claiming she did not know the heroin was in her jewelry box. She explained, too, that she had once been a heroin addict…