State v. Morris

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Warren Morris, claims that he was improperly convicted and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary as a second offender on a charge of wilfully and unlawfully possessing heroin, first, because he was not permitted to ask the jurors on their voir dire the question: “Now, gentlemen, entrapment is recognized as a valid defense available to a person charged with the commission of a crime under certain circumstances * * * and it would be your duty if the evidence satisfied you that the accused was incited, induced, instigated or lured by the police officers…