Flournoy v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, John E. Flournoy, Jr., was convicted of selling cocaine in violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. At the trial, an undercover police officer testified that on March 6, 1987, he had purchased some crack cocaine from a man known as the “Big Man” or “Junior,” who was later identified as Flournoy; the officer also was allowed to recount two subsequent, similar purchases from Flournoy on March 13, and March 14, 1987. Flournoy’s defense was that he had been out of town at the time of the drug sales and that another man, and not he, was known as the…