Clough v. State

HERRMANN, Justice.

In this appeal from conviction of selling a dangerous drug, the question is whether the State proved the “chain of evidence” with sufficient certainty.

Police Officer Orr, working incognito, arranged to buy LSD from the defendant. On March 9, Orr purchased -from the defendant a .purple pill which the defendant identified as LSD; during the return to police headquarters, Orr showed a purple pill to his fellow officer on the case. On the night of March 9, Orr did a “field test” on the pill, sealed the resultant powder in an envelope, and tagged the envelope with the defendant’s…