Crosby v. State

CAREY, Justice.

In a jury trial in Superior Court, the appellant, Robert T. Crosby, Jr., was found guilty of selling a narcotic drug in violation of 16 Del.C. § 4725. He seeks a reversal of that conviction, alleging that the undisputed evidence clearly established entrapment, wherefore the Court below should have directed a verdict in his favor.

The State’s evidence was this: On November 18, 1970, about five o’clock in the afternoon, police officer Gray, accompanied by an informant who was a young girl, went to the home of one Warner. The two of them were dressed like “bums”. The girl stated to…