Dawson v. State

The appellant, Homer Gene Dawson, was convicted of four counts of distributing a controlled substance, a violation of § 13A-12-211, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of 35 years in the state penitentiary.

The state's evidence tended to show that on February 16 and 18, 1993, the appellant sold controlled substances to Wanda Gray, an undercover police officer, at an apartment complex in Florence. Two officers with the Florence Police Department "staked out" the scene and listened to the transaction inside the apartment by way of a microphone. The appellant's direct…