Dixon v. State

OPINION

BUSSEY, Judge:

The appellant, Richard J. Dixon, was tried and convicted in the District Court of Love County of Attempted Manufacture of a Controlled Dangerous Substance pursuant to 63 O.S.Supp.1985, § 2-401, and 63 O.S.1981, § 2-408, and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment and a fine of five thousand dollars.

In the Fall of 1983, Dean Pearman, the owner of twenty acres in Love County, entered into a lease-purchase agreement for the property with the appellant, Richard J. Dixon. Shortly thereafter, Don Pearman, Dean Pearman’s brother, an employee of the local rural electric…