Hargrave v. Commonwealth

WHITE, Justice.

This appeal is taken from the Jefferson Circuit Court in which Claude Hargrave was convicted of trafficking in a controlled substance (cocaine) as well as the misdemeanors of possession of marijuana, me-thaqualone, and methamphetamine. After a hearing in which his status as a persistent felony offender (first degree) was established, his sentence was enhanced to twenty years.

On July 11, 1984, Detective Russell Wilson of the Louisville Police Department gave an affidavit in support of a search warrant in which he affirmed that a reliable confidential informant had told him that…