Court Opinion

ID: 9847400
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:59:02.929896+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:09.788124
License: Public Domain

Brailsford, Justice
(concurring) :
The 1971 Drug Act, which became effective June 17, 1971, omitted the provision of the earlier Act raising a presumption of possession of marihuana for sale or distribution from proof of possession of a specified quantity of the substance. I question the effectiveness of the ineptly worded savings clause, Section 32-1510.66, Code Supplement for 1971, to preserve the statutory presumption which existed at the time of appellant’s arrest, but not at the time of his trial in July, 1971. However, I am convinced that appellant was not prejudiced by the instruction on this presumption, because on this record the conclusion was inescapable that the possessors of 2600 pounds of marihuana possessed it for distribution. No sensible jury could have concluded otherwise. Therefore, I concur in the result.
Lewis and Bussey, JJ., concur.