State v. Valentine

Pee Ctjeiam.

Defendant was found guilty after jury trial on all counts contained in seven separate indictments returned by a Monmouth County Grand Jury. Our attention centers on the charges set forth in two of those indictments and particularly on the problem of whether there should be merger of the convictions obtained thereon.

Indictment No. 1039-71 alleged in one count that on November 8, 1971, defendant possessed heroin with intent to *207distribute it, and in a second count that on the same date defendant did distribute heroin to one Robert McCue, both in violation of N. J. S. A. 24:21-19 (a)…