EDWARDS v. STATE
21.01.10
EDWARDS v. Express
Ramondo EDWARDS Appellant
v.
STATE of Arkansas Appellee.
No. CA CR09-751.
Court of Appeals of Arkansas, Branch I.
Opinion Delivered January 20, 2010.
ROBERT J. GLADWIN, Judge.
Appellant Ramondo Edwards appeals his positiveness by a Union County jury on charges of three counts of delivering a controlled corporeality, a Class Y felony, in violation of Arkansas Code Annotated slice 5-64-401 (Repl. 2006), for which he was sentenced as a habitual offender to sixty-years' custody in the Arkansas Department of Correction, with seven of those years suspended. On petition, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction, specifically arguing that the Imperial failed to prove that he purposely delivered crack cocaine. We affirm.
On April 30, 2007, Ms. Ronnie Hopkins, a private informant, was sent by local law-enforcement officers to 622 West First Drive in El Dorado, Arkansas, to purchase crack cocaine from appellant. The controlled buy was organized after officers received numerous reports from heterogeneous citizens that appellant was selling controlled substances from the residence. Ms. Hopkins worked with officers and bought thirty dollars' importance of crack cocaine while wearing a concealed camera and a covert recorder. Like controlled buys using the same procedures were conducted on May 1, 2007, and on May 3, 2007. Each even so, the contraband was sent to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for testing, and each heyday the substance resulted in a positive result for crack cocaine.
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