State v. Salmon

HALL, Justice:

Defendants appeal their convictions of burglary 1 on the theory of entrapment.

Although certain facts are disputed by the defendants, the following believable evidence was adduced at trial. Prior to the events in question, defendants resided in the State of California. They communicated with a friend, one John Buey, about coming to Utah. Buey lived with his brother-in-law, Jamie Flowers, in Salt Lake County. Flowers testified that Buey told him that defendants were coming to Utah for the purpose of robbing some Utah drugstores. On April 10,1979, Flowers notified one James…