State v. Furlow

WOLLMAN, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a jury on a charge of distributing a controlled drug (LSD) and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

The state’s principal witness was one Donald Platt (Platt), age 19, who in Juné of 1972 had volunteered to give information about the drug traffic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to members of the narcotics section of the Sioux Falls police department’s detective division. He testified that he had met defendant three or four months prior to the trial, which commenced on October 5, 1972, and had talked to him about drugs.…