Salazar v. State

BOYD, Justice.

The question presented in this case is whether, under proper circumstances, a “controlled buy” by an informant whose credibility cannot otherwise be independently ascertained, may constitute probable cause for issuance of a search warrant.

By permission of the trial court, appellant Joan Yolanda Deleon Salazar brings this appeal from a conviction, upon her plea of guilty, of felony possession of marijuana and the consequent court-assessed punishment of four years confinement in the Department of Corrections.1 In two points, appellant argues the trial court, by overruling her…