BARNETTE v. STATE

No. 55141.

478 So.2d 800 (1985)

Hernando BARNETTE v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 30, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon A. Swartzfager, Laurel, for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Marvin L. White, Jr. and Jack B. Lacy, Jr., Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This appeal arises out of events occurring on the evening of October 28, 1981, in a beer joint known as the Union Club in Laurel, Mississippi. At that time and place, Reginald Gage, an undercover agent for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, purchased from Hernando Barnette, Defendant below and Appellant here, four dosage units of dilaudids for the sum of $100.00. On October 29, 1982, Barnette was formally charged with...

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