State v. Creason

MARTIN, Justice.

Upon review, in our discretion, of the decision of the Court of Appeals, we affirm in part and reverse in part, for the reasons hereinafter set forth.

The evidence presented by the state on voir dire tended to show the following: On 28 October 1982 John Lollis, a police officer with the city of Lexington, called Detective Mark Shue of the Rowan County Sheriffs Department and told him that he had received information that the defendant, Raymond Charles Creason, had sold LSD and marijuana at Creason’s residence within the preceding week. Lollis reported that the informant, who…