Hughes v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

The trial court, sitting without jury, found Tom Will Hughes guilty of possession of heroin in violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. Hughes appeals, urging that he should have been acquitted as a matter of law because of entrapment on the part of the state and because he was acting as an agent for the state. We agree and reverse, as we find that as a matter of law, Hughes could not be convicted under the evidence.

Tom Will Hughes worked for Len Jones, the manager of El Shangri La Club in Atlanta. Hughes knew that Len Jones was an informer for Detective Sproat, a…