Smith v. State

Defendant (Appellant) was found guilty in a trial by jury on the offense of selling heroin. His motion to correct errors raises the issue of entrapment and the admissibility of contraband into evidence, such objection being predicated upon a break in the chain of possession, citing Graham v. State (1970), 255 Ind. 237, 255 N. E. 2d 652. The case at bar is easily distinguished from Graham, supra, and we find no merit to Defendant’s claim of inadmissibility.

The doctrine of entrapment has been elaborately analyzed in Sorrels v. United States (1932), 287 U. S. 435, 53 S. Ct. 210, 77 L. Ed. 413…