Alexander v. State

Lyle Brown, Justice.

Appellant James Alexander was convicted of the sale of a controlled substance (LSD) and sentenced to ten years. He advances five points for reversal which will be enumerated and discussed under separate headings.

Point I. The court erred in denying .appellant’s motion for the Slate to furnish him an independent chemist to make an analysis of the contraband.

Appellant takes the position that he was without funds to hire a chemist to make an independent analysis of the LSD and that he had a constitutional right to have such assistance at the expense of the State. We are cited…