Lewis v. State

Carley, Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and found guilty of three counts of distributing crack cocaine. He appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences entered by the trial court on the jury’s verdict of guilt.

1. Over appellant’s chain-of-custody objection, the trial court admitted into evidence cocaine identified as that which appellant had sold to an undercover agent on three separate occasions. This evidentiary ruling is enumerated as error.

“ ‘[Wjhere the State seeks to introduce evidence of a fungible nature, it must show a chain of custody which is adequate to preserve…