James v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the sale of marihuana; the punishment, fifty (SO) years.

*202We are met at the outset with the trial court’s refusal to require the State to disclose the name of the informer. Upon examination of the record, we conclude that Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 53, 77 S.Ct. 623, 1 L.Ed.2d 639, is dispositive of the question before us. In Roviaro, supra, Roviaro and the informant, John Doe, traveled a distance in the informant’s Cadillac to a place where Roviaro alighted from the automobile, walked a few feet to a tree, picked up a package, returned to the…