People v. Laffiton

Defendant, Henry Laffiton, was convicted after a jury trial of the unlawful sale of narcotic drugs and was sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than fifteen nor more than thirty years. In this appeal defendant contends that he did not receive a fair trial and, notwithstanding, was not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Defendant was arrested on April 11, 1963, for illegally selling the narcotic drug, heroin, to A1 Brown, an informer and special employee of the Chicago Police Department. Miss Barbara Moore, an admitted narcotics addict, testified that the defendant gave her ten…