Jones v. State

279 So.2d 594 (1973)

Phillip JONES

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 47404.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 5, 1973.

Dyer, Dyer & Dyer, Greenville, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by T.E. Childs, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

BROOM, Justice:

In the Circuit Court of Washington County, appellant, Jones, was convicted of selling marijuana. From a sentence of four years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary, he appeals to this Court. We affirm.

On April 8, 1972, James Smith, a narcotics agent, dressed as a hippy, met one Benny Spencer in Greenville, Mississippi, at the bar in a…