McKenzie v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for selling marihuana contrary to the Alabama Uniform Controlled Substance Act [No. 1407, September 16, 1971.] The trial judge sentenced Lewis to serve two years at hard labor in the county jail. This is a permissible alternative place of serving sentence in felony cases, under Code 1940, T. 15, § 325, if the sentence is not over two years. Crook v. State, 44 Ala.App. 83, 203 So.2d 138.

I

The indictment used “marijuana” instead of “marihuana.” The latter term appears throughout Act 1407, supra.

Before September 16, 1971, the Alabama law…