BAKER v. STATE

No. 42074.

440 S.W.2d 842 (1969)

Leroy BAKER, Jr., alias Spider Webb, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 7, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

May, Troy & Reagor, by W. John Allison, Jr., Dallas (on appeal only), for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., Malcolm Dade, Camille Elliott and James P. Finstrom, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the sale of marijuana; the punishment, 75 years.

Appellant raises two grounds of error; that the evidence shows entrapment as a matter of law, and that the evidence is insufficient as a matter of law to sustain the conviction.

Officer Cole, a Dallas police officer working undercover at the time, and a man identified as Ken, engaged appellant in a conversation leading up to Ken's requesting appellant...

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