Pickens v. State

Elsijane T. Roy, Justice.

Appellant James Pickens was charged with the sale and delivery of a controlled substance, which charge arose as a result of his sale of two LSD tablets to Richard Lott, a police undercover agent. Appellant was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment and fined $5,000.

On appeal, appellant first contends that the trial court erred in not dismissing jurors who sat on previous consecutive cases involving the sale of controlled substances. Richard Lott was the State’s principal witness against appellant in this case, and also was the primary witness in the…