Lewis v. State

THOMAS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Terrill Lewis appeals his conviction of delivery of cocaine, raising the following issue as error:

I. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING INTO EVIDENCE THE CRACK COCAINE WHEN A PROPER CHAIN OF CUSTODY HAD NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED.

¶ 2. Finding no error, we affirm.

*849FACTS

¶ 3. On January 17, 1995, Colleen Patterson, an undercover agent with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, along with Charles Wash, a confidential informant, went to an apartment complex in Clarke County and there purchased $40 worth of crack cocaine from Terrill Lewis and Carl Hicks. Lewis and Hicks were…