Lawson v. State

Carley, Judge.

Appellant was indicted for selling cocaine in violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. The jury returned a guilty verdict and appellant appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentence entered thereon. All enumerations of error relate to the sufficiency of the evidence to authorize his conviction as against his entrapment defense.

“In Georgia, the entrapment defense consists of three distinct elements: (1) the idea for the commission of the crime must originate with the state agent; (2) the crime must be induced by the agent’s undue persuasion, incitement, or…