Purvis v. State

The appellant, Edward W. Purvis, Jr., was convicted on May 31, 1974, following a jury trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore (Judge Perry G. Bowen presiding) 1 upon counts of two indictments charging, inter alia, two separate acts of distribution of heroin, as well as a count in a third indictment which charged larceny after trust.

The evidence offered in support of the narcotic counts showed that Purvis on November 1, 1973 sold 151.6 milligrams of heroin to two undercover police officers for $130 and that he had made another sale, on the next day, to the same officers of 183.5 milligrams of…