Daniels v. State

HAWKINS, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

Paul R. Daniels appeals his conviction of the sale of cocaine in the circuit court of Marion County. Because the evidence in this case leaves a serious question as to whether Daniels was entrapped as a matter of law, and through no fault of his the answer is not in this record, we reverse.

FACTS

James Kennedy Cotton, an undercover agent for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, met with Agent Marie Edwards on November 6, 1987, and a confidential informant in Columbia, Mississippi, for a “pre-buy meeting”. Cotton and the informant went to the “Super Clean…