State v. LeBrun

The defendant was convicted of the unlawful possession of morphine sulphate, a narcotic drug, and has appealed.

His defense was entrapment and the sole assignment of error is directed to the court’s refusal to give the following requested instruction:

“The defendant in this case has claimed entrapment as a defense. "Where the doing of a particular act is a crime, if the intent to do the act originates with the defendant, the fact that an opportunity is furnished in order to secure the evidence necessary to prosecute him does not constitute a defense.

“However, if the criminal intent to do the…