United States v. Larry Hayes, United States of America v. William A. Hess

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

Defendants Hess and Hayes were convicted on April 14, 1970 by a jury in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado of violating 21 U.S.C. § 331 (q) (2) by their possession and sale of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).

The government’s chief witness, David M. Taketa, a narcotics investigator for the Adams County, Colorado Sheriffs’ Office testified that he was introduced in Boulder, Colorado to defendants by one John Ellerton on July 17, 1969, as “his money man for narcotics * * *” Taketa paid the defendants $254 in exchange for 196 tablets containing LSD.