Case Name: STATE v. LARRY MORGAN AND OTHERS
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1970-06-26
Citations: 287 Minn. 406
Docket Number: Nos. 42018, 42019, 42020, 42021
Parties: STATE v. LARRY MORGAN AND OTHERS.
Judges: Heard before Knutson, C. J., and Rogosheske, Sheran, Peterson, and Frank T. Gallagher, JJ.
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 287
Pages: 406–407

Head Matter:
STATE v. LARRY MORGAN AND OTHERS.
178 N. W. (2d) 697.
June 26, 1970
Nos. 42018, 42019, 42020, 42021.
A. M. Keith and Keith & Healy, for appellants Simonson and Morgan.
Thomas E. Allen and Peterson, Peterson & Peterson, for appellants Hanson and Horton.
Douglas M. Head, Attorney General, and Darrell C. Hill, Special Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
Heard before Knutson, C. J., and Rogosheske, Sheran, Peterson, and Frank T. Gallagher, JJ.

Opinion:
Sheran, Justice.
In criminal proceedings in the district court the Honorable Daniel F. Foley certified a question of law involved in these cases as important and doubtful, requiring consideration of the problem by this court. Minn. St. 632.10.
The question posed is whether a person can be convicted of violating § 618.02 when found in possession of a quantity of marijuana so minimal in amount as to be unusable.
The answer to the question certified is to be found in our de- cisión of State v. Resnick, 287 Minn. 168, 177 N. W. (2d) 418, where we held that a conviction for violating § 618.02 based upon evidence of possession of a quantity of marijuana so minimal as to be unusable for any purpose having a narcotic effect could not be sustained.
The case is remanded to the district court for further proceedings.
Remanded.