Watt v. State

BUSSEY, Judge.

Henry Edward Watt, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried, and convicted, in a two-stage proceeding in the District Court of Oklahoma County, with the crime of Illegal Sale of Marihuana After Former Conviction of a Felony; he was sentenced to serve 37 years in the State Penitentiary, and from said judgment and sentence a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.

Briefly stated, the facts adduced on the trial reveal that Mr. James Rose, who worked for the United States Bureau of Narcotics, on April 26, 1967, was in the 1000 block in Oklahoma City, where he…