Lightfoot v. State

Eddie Dean Lightfoot was convicted for the possession and sale of marijuana and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. On this appeal from those convictions, the appellant argues that the trial court erred in not requiring the disclosure of the identity of the confidential informant. We disagree.

The State's evidence shows that Rector Johnson, Jr., a law enforcement officer with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, was working as an undercover agent in a narcotics investigation in York, Alabama. On the afternoon of December 27, 1985, an informant introduced Johnson to the driver of an…