STATE v. HANSON

No. A09-2124.

790 N.W.2d 198 (2010)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Gerald Alan HANSON, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

November 9, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lori Swanson , Attorney General, St. Paul, MN; and Richard R. Maes , Lyon County Attorney, Marshall, Minneapolis, for respondent.

David W. Merchant , Chief Appellate Public Defender, Rochelle R. Winn , Assistant Public Defender, St. Paul, MN, for appellant.

Considered and decided by JOHNSON, Presiding Judge; ROSS, Judge; and CRIPPEN, Judge.


OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

This drug case requires us to decide the quality of circumstantial evidence necessary to support a conviction for intent to sell. Police searched Gerald Hanson's house and found methamphetamine, a torch, a scale, pipes, plastic baggies, and other paraphernalia. The state charged Hanson with drug possession but later added the charge of possession with intent to sell, and a jury found him guilty. Hanson appeals his conviction of first...

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