State v. Tokatlian

MASON, Justice.

These consolidated appeals arise from two judgments sentencing defendants to two years in the state penitentiary following separate convictions of selling narcotic drugs in violation of section 204.2, The Code, 1966.

Vincent Tokatlian was accused of having sold a quantity of marijuana to Richard Castro, a deputy sheriff of Scott County. At approximately 8:30 p. m. April 4, 1970, Castro, Roxanne Mueller and Tim Wess-ling drove to Tokatlian’s college dormitory room and purchased from Tokatlian what he represented to be a quantity of marijuana for five dollars.

It appears that…