Opinion
No. C-72-09-2977
Submitted on briefs August 22, 1973
Affirmed September 4, 1973
Appeal from Circuit Court, Multnomah County.
JOHN J. MURCHISON, Judge.
Raymond M. Alexander, Jr., Portland, for appellant.
Lee Johnson, Attorney General, John W. Osburn, Solicitor General, and John W. Burgess, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, for respondent.
Before LANGTRY, Presiding Judge, and FOLEY and FORT, Judges.
AFFIRMED.
Defendant was convicted of criminal activity in drugs, ORS 167.207, and ex-convict in possession of firearms, ORS 166.270, and he appeals. He claims insufficiency of evidence to support the convictions. In this context we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the state. State v. Nix, 7 Or. App. 383, 386, 491 P.2d 635 (1971).
Defendant and his wife were the sole occupants of the house in question. Officers came there to search for drugs, pursuant to a valid warrant. Defendant, upon ascertaining the purpose of the officers, resisted their entry, which they then forced. They found narcotics hidden in several places in the home, and five revolvers hidden in three separate places. Defendant, an ex-convict, made inculpatory and exculpatory statements concerning these items. Taken together, the statements and the circumstances warranted the inference that defendant knowingly possessed and exercised control of the items forming the basis for convictions. State v. Neel, 8 Or. App. 142, 147, 493 P.2d 740 (1972).
Affirmed.