McClary v. State

TYSON, Judge.

The indictment charged that Henry L. McClary “did unlawfully sell Phencyclidine Hydrochloride, a drug which produces on ingestion an hallucinatory effect, or induces a schizophrenic psychosis, to Getral A. Smith, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.” Jury trial resulted in a conviction, and verdict and judgment fixed punishment at seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

As witness for the State, James G. Ward testified that he was a narcotics agent with the Alabama Department of Public Safety; that he had been an undercover agent engaged in making “buys” of…