Pulliam v. State

I

This sale-of-marijuana/entrapment case presents a narrow question of evidentiary sufficiency, viz. whether the evidence of that form of official misconduct which has come to be known as "supply and buy" is such that the trial court was in law obligated to direct a verdict of acquittal. Sensitively assessed, the evidence stands uncontradicted, undisputed and unimpeached, that a paid confidential informant working for the state supplied marijuana to the accused, which an undercover police officer purchased from him two days later. There being no substantial evidence of predisposition to sell,…