Barnette v. State

I

This appeal arises out of events occurring on the evening of October 28, 1981, in a beer joint known as the Union Club in Laurel, Mississippi. At that time and place, Reginald Gage, an undercover agent for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, purchased from Hernando Barnette, Defendant below and Appellant here, four dosage units of dilaudids for the sum of $100.00. On October 29, 1982, Barnette was formally charged with the sale of hydromorphone1 in an indictment returned by the Jones County Grand Jury. The indictment charged that Barnette thus violated the Mississippi Controlled Substances…