Snead v. State

Convicted (as a third offender) in three cases of the sale, possession, and control of a narcotic drug, the appellant, Snead, claims here that the evidence showed that he was entrapped by a federal narcotics officer and a police informer, and that he was not the seller, but the agent of the narcotics officer in purchasing the drug, so that his sale, possession and control were those of the officer.

The State’s evidence was as follows. On the first occasion the narcotics agent and the informer drove to the home of the appellant in Baltimore City, where the informer brought the appellant out and…