United States v. Zone

Opinion of the Court

We granted the appellant’s petition for review to consider two of his assignments of error. Because of our disposition of one, the other need not be addressed.

In the course of testimony as to the drug transaction of which the appellant stood accused and now stands convicted,1 a government witness stated that he had been informed before the transactions that the appellant was “a heroin dealer” and had sold heroin to the informant “on from twenty to thirty occasions.” No objection was interposed by civilian defense counsel.

The testimony noted was hearsay evidence 2 which was…