State v. Walls

LEHAN, Judge.

We reverse the trial court’s dismissal of the information against defendant, Darryl Walls, for sale of cocaine in violation of section 893.13, Florida Statutes (1987). We agree with the state that the following deposition testimony of an undercover officer presented a jury question as to whether defendant was sufficiently implicated in a sale of cocaine to the officer even though defendant was not shown to have actually possessed the cocaine or to have verbally directed his codefendant to sell it to the officer:

A. [Detective] Told him what I needed. He [Talbert, the codefendant]…