Brown v. State
Decision Date | 12 June 1984 |
Docket Number | 7 Div. 889 |
Citation | 460 So.2d 263 |
Parties | Rickey Lee BROWN v. STATE of Alabama. |
Court | Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals |
Al Shumaker of Burns, Shumaker & Davis, Centre, for appellant.
Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen. and Helen P. Nelson, Asst. Atty. Gen. for appellee.
Rickey Lee Brown was charged with the unlawful sale of marijuana. At trial, the appellant was found guilty as charged and the trial court set sentence at 12 years' imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The appellant's counsel filed a motion for new trial challenging the weight and sufficiency of the evidence which, after a hearing, was overruled.
The appellant gave notice of appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals on August 4, 1981. On August 7, 1981, this court dismissed this appellant's appeal as being untimely filed.
Thereafter, the appellant filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis, contending that his trial counsel was inadequate in that he had been denied the effective assistance of counsel, by failing to perfect a timely appeal to this court. The trial court then conducted a full hearing squarely on the merits of the appellant's petition for writ of error coram nobis.
The trial court then directed that a complete copy of appellant's original trial transcript be included as a part of the appeal to this court.
Freddie Strength, an undercover narcotics agent for the State of Alabama, testified that in June, 1979, he was working on assignment in several north Alabama counties. He testified that he met with an informant named Ray Cisco who accompanied him to a meeting with the appellant, Rickey Lee Brown, at the appellant's body shop, located in DeKalb County, Alabama, on June 16, 1979. Strength was introduced at this point and a conversation ensued with reference to the purchase of some marijuana. Strength testified that he told Brown that he was there to "buy a pound of marijuana". (R. 17). Brown indicated that he did not have same with him at that time but said that he would meet with them later and suggested that they meet at Cisco's trailer later that evening. Brown did not appear, but at a point later that evening, the men got together at the house trailer of one Roger Dale Buttram. At that time there was a considerable discussion concerning the purchase of marijuana. The appellant indicated it was necessary for him to make a run to Trenton, Georgia, to obtain some marijuana. (R. 19). Strength related the following: (R. 20-21).
Strength testified that he next saw Brown at 11 a.m. on Sunday morning, June 17, 1979. This was at Brown's Body Shop in DeKalb County. He stated that the conversation took place shortly after 9:30 that morning when Ray Cisco first contacted him. (R. 22-23).
After leaving the body shop, the men drove to the house trailer of Buttram. There, Buttram actually handed some bags of marijuana to the appellant who in turn handed them to the agent, Strength. Strength testified he simulated smoking marijuana with Buttram, Brown and Cisco. Strength then described the purchase in question as follows: (R. 25-26).
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