Jones v. State

Cooper, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of trafficking in cocaine. OCGA § 16-13-31 (a). On appeal, in addition to the general grounds, appellant enumerates as error the denial of his motion to suppress and the trial court’s charge to the jury on trafficking.

An investigator with a county sheriff’s office received information from a probation officer about an ongoing enterprise of drug transportation. The probation officer had received the information from a concerned citizen who wanted to be a confidential informant. Although the concerned citizen had never given the probation officer…