Mullins v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

Mullins was charged with having sold “a quantity of controlled substance, to-wit: 100 quaalude tablets containing methaqualone, a Schedule II controlled substance,” to an undercover police officer. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a 30-year sentence. The only argument for reversal is that the cpurt should not have admitted into evidence the 90 whole tablets and 10 half tablets that remained after the other 10 half tablets had been tested by a chemist at the State Crime Laboratory.

The chemist testified that she received 100 white tablets each monogrammed…