Shipp v. State

Appellant, Andrew Jerome Shipp, appeals from a conviction for delivery of heroin, Ind. Code § 35-24.1-4-2, Burns § 10-3561 (a) (1) (i), for which he was sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment and a $900.00 fine.

The facts of the case were that an undercover policeman, Silva, and an informant, Patterson, determined on a plan to have appellant sell Silva narcotics. The federal police informed Silva that they had made a buy of narcotics from appellant. Silva strip-searched Patterson and ascertained that he possessed no money or narcotics. The two then located appellant’s car and stopped near a…