Bakotich v. United States

HUNT, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff in error was convicted under an indictment charging unlawful possession and sale of moonshine whisky and maintenance of a nuisance'. He assigns as error the refusal of the court to give certain requested instructions pertaining to entrapment and to the giving of an instruction upon the use of decoys.

The first request refused was to the effect that, where criminal intent originates in the mind of the defendant, the fact that officers used decoys or truthful statements to furnish opportunity for the accused to commit,the crime, in order to proseeute him, is not a…