OLAJIDE RODDY v. STATE OF ARKANSAS (Majority)

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Cite as 2023 Ark. App. 466 ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS DIVISION IV No. CR-23-209 OLAJIDE RODDY APPELLANT V. STATE OF ARKANSAS Opinion Delivered October 25, 2023 APPEAL FROM THE CRAIGHEAD COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, WESTERN DISTRICT [NO. 16JCR-18-882] APPELLEE HONORABLE CHRIS THYER, JUDGE AFFIRMED 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. Terry Goodwin Jones, for appellant. Tim Griffin, Att’y Gen., by: David L. Eanes, Jr., Ass’t Att’y Gen., for appellee.

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