Latham v. State

GALBREATH, Panel Presiding Judge.

OPINION

Ricky Latham appeals from his conviction by the Criminal Court of Blount County finding him guilty of selling Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD), a Schedule I controlled substance. He was sentenced to confinement in the State Penitentiary for a period of not less than eight nor more than ten years and ordered to pay a fine of $8,000.

An agent for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation testified that he purchased 100 tablets of what a State toxicologist testified was LSD on October 25, 1975, while in the company of an informant who introduced him to the…