NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION
DIVISION IV
JASON THRESHER
APPELLANT
V.
STATE OF ARKANSAS
APPELLEE
CACR06-491
JANUARY 17, 2007
APPEAL FROM THE GARLAND
COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
[NO. CR2004-291-1]
HON. JOHN H. WRIGHT,
JUDGE
AFFIRMED
Appellant Jason Thresher was convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine, a Class
Y felony. He was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of
Correction. His sole contention on appeal is that the trial court erred in finding that there was
sufficient evidence to convict him. We affirm.
At trial, Corporal Keith Bush testified that on March 24, 2004, he stopped a red
pickup truck for failing to use a turn signal. Bush said that Thresher was driving the vehicle
and that there was one passenger, Larry Gilkie. After Bush approached the vehicle, he
discovered that Thresher’s driver’s license was suspended and that there were warrants for
Thresher’s arrest; Bush then arrested Thresher and searched the vehicle, finding what he
believed to be various types of drug paraphernalia. At that point, Bush contacted Drug Task
Force officers for assistance.
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Richard Norris testified that he was a sergeant for the Hot Springs Police Department
and that he was a member of the Eighteenth East Drug Task Force. He said that on March
24, 2004, he was called to a traffic stop involving Thresher and that he found the following
items inside a black trunk in the bed of Thresher’s truck: an electric two-burner hotplate,
plastic, plastic tubing, three pieces of glassware, new coffee filters, a quart of hydrogen
peroxide, two eighteen-ounce bottles of Red Devil lye, and three syringes. Other items
located in the trunk were as follows: two plastic Heet bottles containing a liquid and
sediment; two glass jugs, each containing a bi-layer liquid; a “quart glass jar with a milky
colored liquid”; a “one-pint glass jar containing a clear liquid”; a glass jar containing
numerous striker plates with a red liquid; and a glass jar containing gray crystals, which
weighed approximately one oun