HO YIN WONG v. STATE

No. 77-112.

359 So.2d 460 (1978)

HO YIN WONG, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

As Corrected On Rehearing May 8, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Elliot H. Scherker, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen. and Joel Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before HAVERFIELD, C.J., and HENDRY and NATHAN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Appellant, defendant below, appeals from a judgment of conviction entered pursuant to a jury verdict of guilty on charges of possession and importation of cannabis. Appellant's sole defense at trial was that he was unaware that a straw bag he brought into this country after a foreign vacation contained cannabis. The three issues on appeal all center around the testimony of a single witness, an airport police officer, whose testimony was crucial to the...

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