Sargent v. State

Defendant appeals from a sentence of one to five years pursuant to a jury verdict finding him guilty of possession of a “needle, cooker and eye-dropper with intent to unlawfully administer and use narcotic drugs. . . ,” 1 His indictment on that charge resulted from discovery by police of the specified articles during defendant’s arrest on a warrant issued in an unrelated case. The arrest was made at an apartment in the City of Indianapolis where defendant, aged nineteen, resided with his mother and brothers.

Defendant has argued three contentions of trial court error:

1. Error in overruling…