JONES v. COM.

Record No. 0789-88-4.

396 S.E.2d 844 (1990)

Nathaniel JONES v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia.

September 18, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Harrigan (Duvall, Harrigan, Hale & Downey, Fairfax, on brief), for appellant.

H. Elizabeth Shaffer, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: COLEMAN, DUFF and KEENAN, JJ.


COLEMAN, Judge.

Nathaniel Jones was convicted of distributing cocaine, a Schedule II controlled substance, for which he was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary and fined $500. A crucial piece of circumstantial evidence which was introduced to implicate Jones in the drug sale was a hearsay statement of Kay Gaskins, uttered when she was selling the cocaine to undercover officer Gordon Williams. Williams testified, over defense counsel's hearsay objection, that...

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