People v. Roth

Defendant has been convicted of selling L.S.D., a dangerous drug, in the fourth degree, a felony, and sentenced to an indefinite term in prison with a maximum of four years. Police seized 182 wrapped tablets of L.S.D. on March 23, 1970 in a raid on a farmhouse shown to be a place in which sellers and users of L.S.D. lived in communal fashion. Defendant was not in the house at the time of the raid.

The offense charged against him consists of purported selling of some L.S.D. tablets, similar in outward appearance to the wrapped tablets seized.

The sale charged to defendant, however, occurred…