People v. Tanner

Opinion

TAMURA, J.

Following a jury trial defendant was convicted of conspiracy to sell amphetamines and possession of a firearm by a felon and sentenced to state prison. Defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction.

On or about June 29, 1973, Walker Levon Granger met Donald Lawrence Mansfield and Henry Washington Davis and told them he wanted to buy five kegs (a keg contains 50 jars of 1,000 pills each) of amphetamines. Unknown to Mansfield and Davis, Granger had been arrested two months earlier and was then cooperating with the police. Negotiations continued for several days, Mansfield…