STATE v. ST. AMANT

No. 89-KA-1745.

584 So.2d 724 (1991)

STATE of Louisiana v. Beatrice ST. AMANT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

August 13, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Jack Peebles, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

M. Craig Colwart, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and BARRY and CIACCIO, JJ.


BARRY, Judge.

A jury convicted the defendant on two counts of distribution of cocaine, La.R.S. 40:967. She was sentenced to eight years at hard labor on each count with the sentences to run concurrent, plus $159 court costs or thirty days in Parish Prison.

The defendant argues that she was entrapped and the evidence was insufficient to convict.

FACTS

August Edwards, a friend and former employee of the defendant, was a confidential informant...

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