Anderson v. Commonwealth

Defendant, Frank Clinton Anderson, was tried by a jury and found guilty as a principal in the second degree of distributing marijuana, a controlled drug. He was sentenced to a term of five years in the State Penitentiary, and we granted him a writ of error.

In his assignments of error, defendant challenges the trial court’s rulings in admitting certain evidence and in refusing to set aside the verdict as being contrary to the law and the evidence.

The Commonwealth’s only witness, William D. Spence, an undercover narcotics investigator for the State Police, was on June 30, 1972, driving his…