State v. Givens

kTERRI F. LOVE, Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

By bill of information dated May 8,1998, the defendant, Sidney Givens, was charged with possession of between twenty-eight and two hundred grams, of cocaine; and he pleaded not guilty. The trial court denied the defendant’s motion to suppress the evidence; on September 24, 1998, a twelve-member jury found the defendant guilty of simple possession of cocaine. On October 1, 1998, the trial court sentenced the defendant to fifty months at hard labor.

STATEMENT OF THE FACTS

Pursuant to a tip from a paid confidential informant, Officer Brian Elsensohn went…