Frohner

Defendant Steven Charles Frohner was convicted by a jury of selling or furnishing LSD (Health & Saf. Code, § 11379, subd. (a); count 3) and acquitted of another count of selling or furnishing LSD (count 1) and one count of selling or furnishing cocaine (count 2).

The skeletal facts in this case are not disputed. They involve David Crawley, a Los Angeles County deputy sheriff; Guy. Covert, an informer and heroin dealer, and defendant, a quadriplegic and allegedly a wholesale narcotics dealer.

On October 2, 1974, Deputy Crawley and Guy Covert went to defendant’s residence to buy LSD. Covert asked defendant whether he had the “AC”—that is, LSD—that defendant was “holding for” Covert. Defendant nodded. Another man, Scott—apparently defendant’s atten dant— removed an envelope from a dresser and handed the envelope to Deputy Crawley. The envelope contained about 100 tablets of LSD. Crawley handed $65 to Scott, who placed the money in a wallet, and the wallet in a nightstand drawer.

Deputy Crawley then asked defendant whether it would be possible to purchase “10,000 hits of acid” at a later date, and what they would cost. Defendant said that the acid would cost about 35 cents…