HAWKINS v. STATE

53284.

141 Ga. App. 31 (1977)

232 S.E.2d 377

HAWKINS v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided January 13, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Bryan, Jr., for appellant.

E. Mullins Whisnant, District Attorney, William J. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.


WEBB, Judge.

Joseph Hawkins was convicted of possessing more than one ounce of marijuana (Code Ann. §§ 79A-811 (j), 79A-9917), and he now enumerates as error the general grounds of the motion for new trial and the sustaining of an objection to his testimony that he had never smoked a cigarette nor taken a drink of liquor. We affirm.

1. The evidence reveals that Hawkins rented and controlled the room where the marijuana was found, thus authorizing...

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