Merrifield v. State

Carley, Chief Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and found guilty of two counts of selling cocaine and one count of trafficking in cocaine. He appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences that were entered by the trial court on the jury’s guilty verdicts.

1. The three crimes occurred over a four-day period. Each involved the sale of an increasingly greater quantity of cocaine to the same undercover officer. The negotiations preceding each sale were similar and all three sales were eventually consummated at the same location. Each sale was arranged through and made by an…