Alexander v. State

Hall, Presiding Judge.

In support of the due process claim, appellant relies on Ross v. United States, 349 F2d 210 (D. C. Cir. 1965), in which the court reversed a conviction for narcotics violations where the complaint against defendant was not sworn out until seven months after the alleged offense of sale to an undercover agent. However, the court there required, and defendant showed, prejudice. Appellant here does not.

In Ross the court found that defendant was a man of limited education with little to differentiate one day from another, who kept no diary or other record, received little…