People v. Watkins

— Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Sullivan County, rendered August 16, 1977, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment with a maximum of life and a minimum of four years. As a result of an incident on Old Route 17 near Monticello, New York on August 13, 1976 wherein he allegedly sold four glassine envelopes containing heroin to an undercover agent in the presence of an informer, defendant was indicted by a Sullivan *742County Grand Jury for the crime of…