People v. Jones

Upon a trial without a jury defendant was convicted of the illegal sale of narcotics and sentenced to ten to fifteen years in the State Reformatory For Women. The principal point made by defendant is that she was entrapped into making the “sale” by a special police informer who provided her with narcotics and that the State’s failure to call the informer as a witness to controvert that part of her testimony relating to entrapment is fatal to its case.

It is admitted that on the night of January 21, 1964, an exchange of narcotics for money took place between the defendant and the police…