Hector Saldivar Amaya v. United States

MURRAH, Chief Judge.

On this appeal from conviction and sentence for violation of the narcotic laws, 21 U.S.C. § 174, 26 U.S.C, § 4705(a), appellant complains of the insufficiency of the government’s evidence based in part on the testimony of a paid government informer.

The government’s case follows the familiar pattern of cases of this kind in which enforcement agents search the informer’s car and person and provide him with funds with which to purchase narcotics. There was evidence in this case that the two purchases were made under surveillance by the officers from a vantage point. After…