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WILLIAMS v. THE STATE.
66653.
SHULMAN, Chief Judge.
Drug violation. Sumter Superior Court. Before Judge Blanks.
Appellant was convicted of two counts of selling marijuana in violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. He appeals, contending that the trial court erred in refusing to charge the jury regarding the principle that if two theories of fact exist which are equal in probability, then the one consistent with the defendant's innocence should be the theory accepted as true.
The evidence at trial revealed that appellant had sold marijuana to an undercover deputy sheriff on two separate occasions. The state's evidence consisted of the deputy's testimony and testimony concerning the chain of custody of the plastic packets of marijuana. Appellant's defense consisted of his uncorroborated assertion that he took the deputy's money but did not give him any marijuana.
In the present case, the state's case is based on the direct testimony of the undercover deputy sheriff. Furthermore, appellant's bare assertion that he didn't sell the deputy any marijuana hardly creates two sets of facts that are equally plausible. Therefore, we hold that the trial court was correct in refusing to charge this obviously inapplicable theory of law.
John R. Parks, District Attorney, Barbara Anne Kessler, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.
O. Wendell Horne III, for appellant.
DECIDED OCTOBER 11, 1983.
Tuesday December 2 19:44 CST


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