State v. Knight

Wilson, Justice:

At a trial in the Circuit Court of Wood County on June 12, 1975, on a charge of delivering marijuana, the trial court refused to give defendant’s proferred instruction on the issue of entrapment on the ground that no evidence of entrapment was offered by defendant. On appeal from his conviction by a jury, the appellant (defendant below) assigns the refusal of this instruction as error. He also assigns as error the trial court’s refusal to direct a verdict of acquittal and the trial court’s giving of an instruction at the request of the State which appellant contends did not…