Johnson v. State

FAULKNER, Justice.

Melvin Douglas Johnson was tried by a jury in Mobile on a charge of selling heroin to Danny Wayne Barnes. The jury found him guilty. He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in the State penitentiary. He filed an appeal with the Court of Criminal Appeals. On November 12, 1973, the case was transferred to this court.

Danny Wayne Barnes was an undercover agent for the Mobile Police Department. He and an informer went to the Little Harlem Club on the night of March 4, 1972. There they met Johnson and Claude Crawford. Barnes told Johnson and Crawford that he was in Mobile to…