State v. Franklin

Defendant appeals his conviction by a jury of supplying contraband, marijuana, into a correctional facility contrary to ORS 162.185(l)(a). He proffers nine assignments of error. The first two assignments assert his motions for judgment of acquittal and directed verdict should have been granted on the ground the state had failed to prove marijuana was contraband within the purview of the statute. The third and fourth assignments relate to the court’s rulings which, he argues, allowed the state to ask a leading question of its witness and cut off his cross-examination of the same witness. The…