Brockington v. State

Ruffin, Presiding Judge.

A jury found Joseph Brockington guilty of one count of selling cocaine and one count of trafficking in cocaine. On appeal, Brockington contends that the trial court erred in permitting the State to try him for two separate offenses and in charging the jury. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

1. The record reveals that in October 1994, Brockington was the target of a Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) undercover narcotics investigation. With the use of a confidential informant, GBI agents purchased cocaine from Brockington on October 11, 1994, and again on October…