STEVENS v. STATE

No. N-144.

245 So.2d 92 (1971)

Willie Mae STEVENS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 4, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, and Gerald Sohn, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Michael J. Minerva, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Appellant-defendant appeals the judgment of conviction and sentence of five years for possession of narcotic drugs and ten years for sale of narcotic drugs.

Appellant's primary point on appeal is that the trial court erred in permitting the introduction of a bag of heroin into evidence when the chain of custody had not been proven. The prosecution, by competent evidence, proved that there was no tampering with the contraband between the time it...

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