State v. Allen

DONOFRIO, Chief Judge.

Appellant, Billy Morris Allen, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged with the crime of illegal possession of narcotic drugs for sale. Defendant was convicted of the crime and put on probation for five years. A motion for a new trial and/or an arrest of judgment and for a directed verdict of acquittal, notwithstanding the jury verdict, was made and denied.

On the 19th of November, 1965, an officer of the Phoenix Police Department, working on a narcotics detail, received information from a confidential informer that the informer had purchased some heroin from…