Roberts v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

George Theodore Roberts was indicted and convicted for the sale of marijuana. Sentence was ten years’ imprisonment.

The trial court improperly limited the scope of defense counsel’s voir dire examination of the jury venire.

The State’s main witness was Jamie D. Thomas, an officer of the Narcotics Unit of the Alabama Bureau of Investigation. He testified that, while working as an undercover agent, he purchased marijuana from the defendant on February 27, 1984.

Thomas was also a witness for the State in cases against Andrew Louis Wilson and Patricia Ann Johnson for the sales…