Taylor v. State

This appeal is from a conviction for unlawful sale of marijuana under Code of Alabama, 1940, Recompiled 1958, §§ 256 and 258, Title 22, as amended (pocket parts.) This appellant was sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

The appellant bases his argument for reversal on three propositions, mainly; first, that he was sentenced by the court under Title 22, § 256, as it stood before it was amended on August 29, 1969, to change the punishment and which amendment was in ■effect at the time of trial; second, that there was a fatal variance between the indictment and proof; and third, the admission of…