Filgueiras v. State

Appellant was charged by information with unlawful sale of a narcotic drug. There was considerable preliminary skirmishing by counsel for the defendant attempting to secure evidence in the possession of the State Attorney’s office. The pre-trial discovery disclosed that the sale had been made to an informant; that the informant had been wired for sound or his telephone conversations with the defendant had been electronically intercepted. Although police authorities believed they had delivered all of the transcriptions to the State Attorney’s office, counsel for the defendant [from his…