State v. Hyde

PRITCHARD, Chief Judge.

Appellant was convicted by the verdict of a jury of the commission of the crime of the sale of a controlled substance (cocaine). The jury was unable to agree on the punishment and the court set it at fifteen years imprisonment in the Department of Corrections.

Appellant’s first point is that he was entrapped as a matter of law into committing the offense. The evidence is this: Steven Dennis Courtois was employed by the Platte County Sheriff’s office in narcotics investigation for which he had received special training with the Drug Abuse Law Enforcement program, a…