State v. Francis

Defendant was convicted after a court trial of knowingly dispensing a regulated drug (marijuana), 18 V.S.A. § 4224(g), and was sentenced to a term of from eighteen months to three years. He appeals his conviction and we affirm.

On the date of the alleged offense, February 16,1985, defendant was incarcerated at the Addison County Jail in Middlebury, *629serving fifteen weekends on unrelated charges. On January 12, 1985 another inmate, Rocky Blaise, told deputy sheriff Robert Stebbins that defendant had shown him on the previous day five hand-rolled cigarettes which Blaise believed may have been…