VALERIO v. STATE

No. 4456.

542 P.2d 875 (1975)

Ruben VALERIO, Appellant (Defendant below), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Plaintiff below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Rehearing Denied December 10, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard F. Pickett, Loomis, Lazear, Wilson & Pickett, Cheyenne, for appellant.

Frank Mendicino, Atty. Gen., David A. Kern, Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, Thomas J. Carroll, County Atty. for Laramie County, Cheyenne and George A. Zunker, Graduate Law Student, for appellee.

Before GUTHRIE, C.J., McCLINTOCK, THOMAS and ROSE, JJ., and ARMSTRONG, D.J., Retired.


ARMSTRONG, District Judge, Retired.

Appellant, Ruben Valerio, was convicted by a jury of two counts of delivering cocaine, a controlled substance, to Alfredito Sanchez and sentenced by the trial court on June 10, 1974, to serve concurrent terms of fourteen to seventeen years on each count in the state penitentiary.

The testimony establishes that Sanchez sold an ounce of cocaine on January 6, 1973, to two men who, unknown to him, were narcotics agents. He was...

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