State v. Cloud

OPINION

By KOVACHY, J.

This appeal is on questions of law from a judgment entered in the Court of Common Pleas wherein the defendant-appellant, Philip Edwin Cloud, was found guilty by a jury of eight counts of an indictment charging separate violations of the narcotic laws of Ohio and was sentenced to the Mansfield Reformatory.

The State of Ohio obtained conviction, in the main, on evidence obtained by an informer in cooperation with the Narcotic Squad of the Cleveland Detective Bureau. The record discloses testimony, which is unrebutted, that the informer, one Jessie Jones, had been “caught - -…