Arguelles v. State

Appellant contests his conviction and sentence for trafficking in cocaine and conspiracy to traffic in cocaine, raising five issues on appeal. His main contention concerns the trial court’s admission of alleged hearsay statements of his co-defendant, Jose Gajate. Because some of the statements constituted non-hearsay verbal acts and those statements, when combined with the other non-hearsay evidence, sufficiently established appellant’s participation in a conspiracy to traffic in cocaine, the trial court did not err in admitting Gajate’s other co-conspirator hearsay statements. We thus affirm…