Tucker v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for sale of marijuana. The defense was essentially misidentification. The evidence showed that the “buy” was made in October 1983, by a new police recruit acting as an undercover agent; the officer had joined the police force less than a week before he allegedly bought marijuana from a man he met briefly and whose street name he learned was WeeWee. He turned the marijuana over to senior vice squad officers and was told to learn WeeWee’s real name. He saw WeeWee briefly two or three more times and was told by another that WeeWee’s name was…