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Knight v. State

Police officers could stop defendant based on a reliable informant's tip regarding a drug transaction, which accurately described defendant and his car, his location and the time he would be there.

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Following denial of his motion for new trial, Willie Knight appeals his conviction of trafficking in cocaine. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, the legality of the traffic stop through which the evidence was obtained, and the effectiveness of his attorneys’ representation.

Knight’s co-indictee Evans pled guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and appeared as a State’s witness at Knight’s trial. He testified as follows. On July 22, 1994, he agreed to accompany Knight on an unspecified errand which Knight said he had to run. At approximately 2:30 to 3:00 p.m., Knight drove them to a restaurant in a rental car. At the restaurant, Knight informed Evans that he needed to go to a Smile gasoline station on Fifteenth Street to consummate a drug transaction. En route, Knight stopped the car at a church, took out a set of scales, weighed an amount of cocaine, and sold it to a man who had approached the car. As Knight drove away, he gave Evans a plastic bag containing the remaining cocaine, money, and the scale, and asked Evans to hold them. Knight then informed Evans that they were going to the Smile station to make the other cocaine sale. While stopped at a traffic light on the way there, they were abruptly surrounded by police vehicles.

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