Clayton v. State

Cooper, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of possession of cocaine. Appellant’s sole enumeration of error is that the trial court erred in refusing to charge the jury on the defense of entrapment.

In his testimony at trial, appellant denied that he committed the crime claiming that he did not know he was carrying a package containing cocaine. “ ‘[I]f a reasonable inference of entrapment may be drawn by a rational jury from the State’s evidence, the defendant is entitled to a jury charge on entrapment unless he has presented evidence of entrapment inconsistent with his denial of the…