Elam v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

The appellant was convicted by a jury of the offense of sale of cocaine. Punishment was assessed by the court at twelve years’ imprisonment.

Fourteen grounds of error are raised in this appeal. The first urges that the State was allowed to bolster the credibility of its witness Ronald Ray Tucker.

Tucker, an undercover agent for the Department of Public Safety, had purchased six “papers” of cocaine from the appellant on March 3, 1973. The appellant, raising the defense of entrapment, urged that Tucker was the motivating force behind the sale.

At trial, Tucker was called as…