Rusher v. State

Defendant (Appellant) was convicted of theft from a coin operated machine. His defense was one of entrapment. The State’s witness, the arresting police officer, testified that he saw the defendant take the money in question and that the defendant’s clothing and the money taken from him after the arrest revealed traces of ultra-violet powder with which the coins and coin box had been dusted in preparation for the “stake-out” which he, the officer, had helped to plan and wherein the defendant had been caught. The police officer, on cross-examination, testified that he was acquainted with one…