State v. Royal

Gregory, Justice.

Certiorari was granted in this case to determine first, whether the Court of Appeals correctly ruled that the failure of the State to rebut defendant Royal’s testimony as to entrapment with the testimony of the confidential informant entitled Royal to an acquittal, and secondly, whether the trial court erred in overruling defendant’s Brady motion seeking disclosure of the informant’s identity.(1) Two undercover GBI agents and a confidential informant went together to Pal’s Drive-in in Thomasville on the evening of July 27,1979, to see if the agents could obtain any illegal…