Milton v. State

MANN, Chief Judge.

The evidence against Milton is tenuous. A police informer and a deputy sheriff disguised as a heroin customer picked up a woman who was a heroin addict. Milton, she testified, came along for the ride, to get from where they were to Belmont Heights. There is sufficient evidence that in Belmont Heights a sale of heroin took place, but the evidence links the woman to the transaction positively and Milton only circumstantially. If the sole question presented was that of the sufficiency of evidence, we would affirm. The deputy sheriff stated to the jury that Milton commented on…