Opinion
CR-23-209
10-25-2023
OLAJIDE RODDY APPELLANT v. STATE OF ARKANSAS APPELLEE
Terry Goodwin Jones, for appellant. Tim Griffin, Att'y Gen., by: David L. Eanes, Jr., Ass't Att'y Gen., for appellee.
APPEAL FROM THE CRAIGHEAD COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, WESTERN DISTRICT [NO. 16JCR-18-882] HONORABLE CHRIS THYER, JUDGE AFFIRMED
Terry Goodwin Jones, for appellant.
Tim Griffin, Att'y Gen., by: David L. Eanes, Jr., Ass't Att'y Gen., for appellee.
BRANDON J. HARRISON, CHIEF JUDGE
Olajide Roddy appeals the Craighead County Circuit Court's revocation of his five-year suspended sentence for possession of methamphetamine, Ark. Code Ann. § 5-64-419 (Supp. 2023), a Class D felony. Roddy was sentenced in December 2018 as a habitual offender. He raises the same sufficiency-of-evidence point he raised in Roddy v. State, 2023 Ark.App. 471, an appeal from a different revocation sentence entered after the same hearing. The facts, Roddy's arguments, and our analysis are set out at length in that opinion, which is also issued today. But in brief: Yes, telling a police officer that bags of methamphetamine and marijuana belong to you is sufficient evidence that you violated a condition of your suspended sentence that prohibits possessing illegal drugs.
Affirmed.
GRUBER and HIXSON, JJ., agree.