Duvall v. State

BLACKBURN, Senior Appellate Judge.

Following a jury trial, James Kevin Duvall appeals his conviction for possessing a controlled substance. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and argues that the court erred in admitting a similar transaction and in failing to charge the jury on mistake of fact. Discerning no harmful error, we affirm.

Construed in favor of the verdict, Davis v. State, 1 the evidence shows that at 2:30 a.m. on November 27, 2007, Duvall banged loudly on the locked back door of his father’s neighbor’s residence and attempted to open the door. Awoken and terrified by the…