Buckelew v. State

CATES, Judge.

Possession and sale of LSD: sentence, fifteen years in the penitentiary.

I

Appellant’s first claim of error rests on an allegation that one Otten, the State’s principal witness, was under a contingent reward basis.

If there had been such an arrangement it would have gone to the weight to be accorded 'Otten’s testimony. Knight v. State, 23 Ala.App. 582, 129 So. 478. A contingency requiring conviction does not taint a reward. Dixon v. State, 269 Ala. 548, 115 So.2d 270.

However, we have been cited to no-ruling of the trial judge excluding cross-examination of Otten as to a contingent…