State v. Parks

The defendant, Jeff Parks, was convicted by a jury of the felony crimes of delivery of lysergic acid diethylamide and delivery of marijuana. Following concurrent sentences of 5 to 10 years and 4 to 8 years, the defendant has appealed to this court. His assignments of error include the jury’s rejection of his defense of entrapment, the trial court’s sustaining of the State’s motions in limine, its failure to give an instruction on the testimony of a paid informer, its overruling of a plea in abatement, and the excessiveness of the sentences.

The basic facts in this case are not in dispute. The…