Court Opinion

ID: 9775583
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:04:15.740139+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:29.123589
License: Public Domain

ODOM, Judge
(concurring).
I concur in this affirmance. Appellant contends the indictment, alleging delivery of heroin in violation of Sec. 4.03(a) of the Controlled Substances Act, is fundamentally defective for failure to allege the act was committed “unlawfully.”
Sec. 4.03(a), supra, provides:
“Except as authorized by this Act, a person commits an offense if he knowingly or intentionally manufactures, delivers, or possesses with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1, 2, 3, or 4.”
Sec. 5.10(a) of the Controlled Substances Act provides:
“It is not necessary for the state to negate any exemption or exception set forth in this Act in any complaint, information, indictment, or other pleading or in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding under this Act, and the burden of going forward with the evidence with respect to any exemption or exception shall be upon the person claiming its benefit.”
It was not necessary that the State negate any exemptions or exceptions provided by the Act, either explicitly and individually, or generally by alleging the delivery was “unlawful.”
I therefore concur in the affirmance.