Billups v. State

Sognier, Chief Judge.

Ricky Billups was convicted of two counts of violating the Georgia Controlled Substances Act, OCGA § 16-13-20 et seq., by selling cocaine and by selling a noncontrolled substance upon the implied representation that it was a controlled substance. He appeals.

The evidence adduced at trial showed that in the summer of 1991, Betty Echols, an undercover agent with the Ocmulgee Drug Task Force, was engaged in an undercover operation in Putnam County. Echols testified that on August 1, 1991, while accompanied by a confidential informant at a nightclub in Eatonton, she purchased…