HUTCHINGS v. STATE

No. 1788.

518 P.2d 767 (1974)

Harrison Leroy HUTCHINGS, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 1, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Burke, Asst. Public Defender, Herbert D. Soll, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Robert B. Downes, Asst. Dist. Atty., Fairbanks, John E. Havelock, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, ERWIN, BOOCHEVER and FITZGERALD, JJ.


OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Justice.

Harrison Leroy Hutchings was convicted of selling a stimulant drug in violation of AS 17.12.010. He asserts on appeal that the trial judge erroneously excluded impeachment evidence.

Jimmie Clements was employed as an undercover police officer in January of 1972. He testified at Hutchings' trial that in the early morning hours of January 15, he was in the Gold Rush Bar when Verna Hofhines, another undercover agent, introduced...

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