Morgan v. State

1 On the evening of October 18, 1974, Dennis Dill, a narcotics investigator for Pottawatomie County, together with one Darrell Claudell, after having received thirty dollars from Detective Larry James, proceeded to the Humpty Dumpty parking lot on Kickapoo in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where, after pulling alongside the automobile of Richard Morgan, Darrell Claudell inquired if defendant Morgan had any marijuana for sale. Morgan replied that he did not have any with him, but for them to meet him later in the parking lot of the sports center on Kickapoo. Upon arriving at the sports center at 10:10 p.m., Mr. Dill got out of his car where he saw Morgan selling rolled up plastic bags to different people. Dill purchased a plastic bag of marijuana from Morgan for $10.00, and later turned it over to Detective Larry James. The chain of possession of the said marijuana was properly established and examined by Donald Flynt, a forensic chemist for the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation who positively identified it as Cannabis sativa.