Legal Opinion

Dumon v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided November 3, 1972PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Justice.

Appellant’s single argument for a reversal is entrapment. He was charged and convicted under KRS 217.731 and 217.125 (possession of dangerous drugs — 3,000 LSD pills (lysergic acid diethylamide)) and given five years’ imprisonment and a fine of $5,000.

According to the evidence, D. R. Wiley, a police officer of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and J. O. Sullivan, an undercover narcotics agent of the police department of Radcliff, Kentucky, struck up a conversation concerning the drug traffic in Eliza-bethtown. Both men seemed to have information that appellant, Gregory…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Sherman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
  2. Osborn v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. Masciale v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
  4. Shanks v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1971

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Green v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1972
  2. Wyatt v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2007
  3. Barclay v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1973
  4. Johnson v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1977

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