State v. Green

CROCKETT, Justice:

Defendant James Green appeals from two separate jury verdicts returned in a combined trial of two charges against him of selling narcotic drugs. 1 He contends that the court committed reversible error in admitting evidence concerning previous sales of heroin, for one of which he had been charged but not yet tried.

On August 3, 1975, about noon, Officers Mike Roberts and Jerry Mendez and Sandy Ellison, after appropriate preliminary preparations, furnished an undercover agent, Denise Giersz, with $10, drove her to the defendant’s home in Salt Lake City, and observed as she…