Opinion ID: 2539450
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Heading: Sufficiency of the Evidence Maintaining a Drug Premises

Text: Arkansas Code Annotated § 5-64-402 provides that it is unlawful for any person to knowingly keep or maintain any store, shop, warehouse, dwelling, building, or other structure or place or premise that is resorted to by a person for the purpose of using or obtaining a controlled substance. . . . Ark.Code Ann. § 5-64-402(a)(2) (Supp.2009). Appellant contends that the circuit court erred in denying the motion for a directed verdict on the charge of maintaining a drug premises. She claims that the State failed to introduce substantial evidence that she maintained a structure or premises used for keeping controlled substances. The State counters that there was ample evidence to show that Appellant lived on the premises and was involved in the manufacture of methamphetamine. We agree. Based upon the evidence summarized earlier in this opinion, we affirm the circuit court's denial of Appellant's directed-verdict motion on the offense of maintaining a drug premises.