James W. Hunt v. United States

Appellant was convicted of narcotics violations. In his testimony he admitted selling narcotics to a police undercover agent on six separate occasions over a period of several weeks. His defense is that he was entrapped into these acts by the police agent. The testimony was conflicting; appellant’s evidence arguably made out entrapment as a matter of law 1 and the Government’s evidence negated entrapment as a matter of law. 2 The instructions were free of prejudicial error, 3 and thus the jury’s verdict indicating belief of the Government’s version of the transactions is conclusive.

Appellant…