State v. Eaton

CROCKETT, Justice:

Defendant Fred L. Eaton was convicted by a jury of unlawful distribution for value of a controlled substance,1 to-wit: heroin. He attacks his conviction contending: (1) that improper remarks of the prosecutor had the effect of destroying his constitutional privilege of refusing to testify; and (2) that his conviction does not stand on a sound foundation of evidence because its pivotal aspect rested upon the testimony of a drug addict.

At about 1:00 p. m. on December 9,1975, one Ken Goode, a heroin addict, who was then under the methadone cure treatment and was working as an…