Court Opinion

ID: 9792121
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:23:21.007376+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:34:13.603947
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE ADAIR
specially concurring in the result.
While entrapment is a recognized valid defense, yet it is not the entrapping of the criminal that the law frowns upon, but it is the seduction of innocent persons into a criminal career by officers of the law.
It is only when the criminal design does not originate with the accused, and a decoy is used to ensnare an innocent person by deceitful representations, persuasions, inducement or allurement into the commission of the crime by the accused, that there is entrapment.
The substantial evidence required to support the theory of entrapment is absent from the record before the court on this appeal, for which reason I concur in the result pronounced, but not in all that is said in the majority opinion.