Pierce v. State

Mike Pierce was convicted in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Bolivar County, Honorable Elzy J. Smith presiding, for delivery and sale of cocaine and was sentenced to serve fifteen (15) years with the Mississippi Department of Corrections and to pay a fine of five thousand dollars ($5,000). Pierce has appealed to this Court and he assigns two (2) errors in the trial below.

According to the State's evidence, on May 22, 1979, confidential informant David Hammontree met with narcotics agents Ron Pitts and Mike Tyson near Alligator, Mississippi. Hammontree and Pitts drove to…