State v. Thomas

BRYANT, Judge.

Where the record fails to indicate that law enforcement officers utilized acts of persuasion, trickery or fraud to induce defendant to commit a crime, or that the criminal design originated in the minds of law enforcement, rather than with defendant, the trial court did not err in failing to instruct the jury on the theory of entrapment.

Defendant Jeffry Allen Thomas was indicted on charges of trafficking in opium or heroin by possession, trafficking in opium or heroin by transportation, and felonious possession with intent to sell or deliver a controlled substance. On 10 January…