ELSON v. STATE

No. 4967.

633 P.2d 292 (1981)

Joel Anthony ELSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

September 10, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric M. Safire, Asst. Public Defender, Kenai, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Rhonda F. Butterfield, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before BRYNER, C.J., and COATS and SINGLETON, JJ.


OPINION

COATS, Judge.

Joel Elson appeals his conviction and sentence of twenty-one months for possession of cocaine in violation of AS 17.10.010. He alleges that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence cocaine which he contends was the product of an illegal search and seizure of his person; that the trial court erred in permitting testimony that he resisted the search as circumstantial evidence to show that he knowingly possessed the cocaine; that...

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