Hames v. State

Phipps, Judge.

H. B. Hames, Jr. was convicted of sale of cocaine, based on evidence that he had sold crack cocaine to a police informant working in an undercover drug investigation. In this appeal of his conviction, he claims error in the trial court’s application of the rule of sequestration and he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. Finding the evidence sufficient and no abuse of discretion in the court’s application of the rule, we affirm.

I. Hames first charges the trial court with an abuse of discretion in excepting the lead drug investigator from the rule of sequestration.

Although…