State v. Hansen

CROCKETT, Justice:

Defendant Earl B. Hansen appeals from a jury conviction for attempted theft by receiving stolen property.1 He argues that the conduct of the policeman who sold him three guns constituted entrapment as a matter of law and, thus, the charge should have been dismissed. Alternatively, he seeks a new trial on the grounds that error was committed in admitting evidence of past offenses in contravention of Section 76-2-303(6), quoted below.

As part of a plan to investigate “fencing” of stolen property occurring in northwest Salt Lake City, city policeman Floyd Led-ford, on January…