TATE, Justice.
The defendant Redwine was convicted of possessing opium with intent to distribute it, La.R.S. 40:967A, and sentenced to twenty years at hard labor. Upon his appeal, he principally questions the admission into evidence at the present trial of his own testimony given under oath at a prior trial of two of his friends for the possession of the same opium.
The prior trial resulted in the convictions of the two friends, a husband and wife, which we...
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