State v. Ballinger

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• defendant’s presence in house on previous day supported inference that he possessed narcotics seized when police returned with search warrant
• defendant's presence in house on previous day supported inference that he possessed narcotics seized when police returned with search warrant
• court has duty to instruct on lesser-included offense of possession of heroin if evidence reasonably supports conviction on that offense
• court has duty to instruct on lesser-included offense of possession of heroin if evidence reasonably supports conviction on that offense
• court has duty to instruct on lesser-included offense of possession of heroin if evidence reasonably supports conviction on that offense
• “Possession of heroin is a lesser[-] included offense of the greater offense of possession of heroin for sale, since the second cannot be committed without necessarily committing the first.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).