378 S.E.2d 161 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1989
Defendant Jesus Ginjauma was convicted of trafficking in cocaine in violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. Co-defendant Norma Cubas was found not guilty of the same charge. On appeal defendant contends the trial court erred in charging the jury on both actual and constructive possession inasmuch as the indictment charged he was “knowingly [in] actual possession of cocaine in an
Judgment affirmed.
At the time defendant was indicted in the case at bar actual possession was required in order to authorize a conviction pursuant to OCGA § 16-13-31. That statute has since been amended and the word “actual” preceding possession has been deleted. Ga. L. 1988, p. 420, § 2.