United States v. Chisum

FERGUSON, District Judge.

This is a case of first impression in federal courts involving the issue of entrapment when the government supplies counterfeit money to a person and then arrests him for receiving it.

The defendant is charged with violating 18 U.S.C. § 473, the indictment stating that on October 30, 1969, he knowingly received 500 counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes, with intent to pass them as genuine. After the government responded to his bill of particulars, the defendant moved to dismiss the indictment and for a judgment in bar on the ground that he was entrapped as a matter of law.

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