Lightsey v. State

Bernes, Judge.

A Ben Hill County jury convicted Ivan Jerel Lightsey of sale of cocaine. On appeal, Lightsey contends that the trial court erred in failing to charge the jury on entrapment. Lightsey further argues that the trial court should have granted his motion for a directed verdict of acquittal because the state purportedly failed to prove he was not entrapped beyond a reasonable doubt. Finding no error, we affirm.

Construed in favor of the verdict, the evidence shows that on June 23, 2005, a police captain with the City of Fitzgerald Police Department engaged a female confidential…