Rogers v. State

TYSON, Presiding Judge.

The indictment charged that the appellant did “unlawfully sell, furnish, or give away 510 milligrams of cocaine, a narcotic drug, to Howard Wayne Lowe . . ..” The jury found the appellant guilty as charged, and the trial court fixed his sentence at six years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Appellant’s motion for new trial was overruled.

In August of 1974, Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff Howard Wayne Lowe was working on a special assignment as an undercover agent with the United Narcotics Detail Operation (U.N.D.O.). On August *3016, 1974, around 7:20 p. m., Deputy Lowe,…