Hall v. State

Bell, Chief Judge.

Defendant was convicted of selling heroin and the unlawful possession of phenobarbital.

The state’s evidence established the offenses and the defendant admitted as a witness in his own behalf that he sold the heroin and possessed the phenobarbital tablets but defendant testified that he was entrapped by the police and their informer. The witnesses for the state testified that they frequently drove the informer to a drug addiction treatment center in Atlanta where he met the defendant, also an addict undergoing treatment. The informer was not on the police payroll but was…