Washington v. State

451 S.W.2d 449 (1970)

Wadell WASHINGTON, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

No. 5484.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

March 23, 1970.

Louis W. Rosteck, Little Rock, for appellant.

Joe Purcell, Atty. Gen., Don Langston, Mike Wilson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

By information the appellant was charged with the unlawful sale of narcotic drugs, in the form of thirty capsules of "amphetamine with sulfate pentrobarbital." The trial court, sitting without a jury, found the accused guilty and sentenced him to three years confinement in the penitentiary. In this…