SNEAD v. STATE

[No. 213, September Term, 1963.]

234 Md. 63 (1964)

197 A.2d 920

SNEAD v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 9, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted on the brief by Mrs. Juanita Jackson Mitchell for appellant.

Loring E. Hawes, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, William J. O'Donnell, State's Attorney and Robert V. Lazzaro, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HAMMOND, PRESCOTT, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.


SYBERT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Convicted (as a third offender) in three cases of the sale, possession, and control of a narcotic drug, the appellant, Snead, claims here that the evidence showed that he was entrapped by a federal narcotics officer and a police informer, and that he was not the seller, but the agent of the narcotics officer in purchasing the drug, so that his sale, possession and control were those of the officer.

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