STATE v. TURNER

No. 45552.

239 N.W.2d 468 (1976)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Willie TURNER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

February 27, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomson, Wylde, Nordby & Friedberg, John R. Wylde, Jr., and Joseph S. Friedberg, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Gary W. Flakne, County Atty., Michael McGlennen, David W. Larson, Vernon E. Bergstrom, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, for respondent.

Heard before OTIS, SCOTT, and AMDAHL, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.


OTIS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of unlawful possession of heroin, a Schedule I narcotic controlled substance. We affirm.

At approximately 2:50 a. m. on October 31, 1973, two Minneapolis police officers stopped a car at the intersection of 24th Street and Nicollet Avenue. They had observed the car traveling south on Nicollet with its lights out, weaving back and forth across the centerline. Defendant, Willie Turner, was the...

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