Stanford v. State

Appellant, Lamar Stanford, was indicted by the Dale County Grand Jury on October 5, 1982, for violation of the provisions of the Alabama Uniform Controlled Substances Act, § 20-2-70, Code of Alabama (1975). On May 26, 1983, appellant was found guilty of selling marijuana and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the state penitentiary. The sentence was suspended and appellant was placed on probation.

State Trooper Gerard Herring testified at trial that he went to Ozark as an undercover agent for the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, and that on June 15, 1982, at 8:15 p.m., he drove to a…