Briggs v. State

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of delivery of a controlled substance, cocaine, fined $1000.00, and sentenced to fifteen years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. The substance was sold in February of 1985 to Terrie Hild, an Arkansas State Police undercover narcotics investigator, who was wearing a body microphone at the time of the transaction. The mike was being monitored by Hild’s supervisor and by police officers of the City of Benton, Arkansas. Approximately one gram of cocaine was purchased. The state crime laboratory analyzed it as 42% pure.

By pretrial motion,…