COMMONWEALTH v. CONWAY


196 Pa.Super. 97 (1961)

Commonwealth v. Conway, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

September 13, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Damico, Jr., with him Chadwick, Petrikin, Smithers & Ginsburg, for appellant.

Anna R. Iwackiw, Assistant District Attorney, with her Domenic D. Jerome, Assistant District Attorney, Ralph B. D'Iorio, First Assistant District Attorney, and Jacques H. Fox, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ. (RHODES, P.J., absent).


OPINION BY FLOOD, J., September 13, 1961:

This appeal from defendant's conviction of bookmaking is based upon the trial judge's failure to submit the question of entrapment to the jury.

The appellant was a cab driver. The Commonwealth's testimony was that on November 19, 1959, Mrs. Esposito, a county agent, investigating a complaint about horse betting asked another cab driver where she could place a bet. He introduced her to the defendant. The defendant then...

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