Ford v. State

John Lay Ford, Jr., the appellant, was convicted by the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County of the unlawful sale of the drug, LSD. Judge J. DeWeese Carter, presiding without a jury, imposed a sentence of one year. On appeal, the sole question is whether the accomplice’s testimony was sufficiently corroborated.

On December 6, 1969, between 7:15 P.M. and 8:15 P.M., Constance McConnell, age 18, a student at Gunston School in Queen Anne’s County, received a telephone call from the appellant who asked if she wanted to buy any LSD. Miss McConnell testified that after she said that she did not want…