Edwards v. Commonwealth

EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Justice.

Appellant undertakes by this appeal to upset his conviction on a charge that he illegally sold, dispensed or administered a narcotic drug (heroin) in violation of KRS 218.020, under which he was sentenced to serve 20 years in the state penitentiary and adjudged to pay a fine of $20,000.

We shall discuss the questions raised in appellant’s brief as they are therein presented without listing them in a group. Before doing so, however, we make a brief statement of the facts.

The evidence discloses that appellant sold to one William Henry Jones, a convicted felon with a…