Laws v. State

ANSTEAD, Judge.

This is an appeal by appellant, George Laws, from a conviction and sentence in a drug trafficking case. We affirm and reject Law’s claim that he proved entrapment as a matter of law and is entitled to be discharged.

FACTS

In his motions for judgment of acquittal made at trial, Laws asserted that he had been improperly entrapped by the police into trafficking in cocaine. The trial court denied the motions. It instructed the jury on the defense of entrapment. The jury apparently rejected such defense, returning a verdict of guilty.

At trial, Kenneth Pfeiffer, arrested with Laws for…