Sweatt v. State

473 S.W.2d 913 (1971)

Jimmy Alfred SWEATT, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

No. 5629.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

December 20, 1971.

Pollard, Bethune & Caveneau, Searcy, for appellant.

Ray Thornton, Atty. Gen., Robert H. Crank, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of selling or bartering LSD, a hallucinatory drug, to Robbie White, a 14-year-old boy. The jury fixed the punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for five years. For reversal the appellant argues, primarily, that the proof does not support the conviction and that…