UNITED STATES v. THOMPSON

No. 72-1225.

481 F.2d 650 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Eugene W. THOMPSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 3, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Russell, Jr., Boston, Mass., for appellant.

Terry Philip Segal, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom James N. Gabriel, U. S. Atty., was on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Appellant, convicted in a jury trial of conspiring to distribute and of distributing narcotics, claims that he established his defense of entrapment as a matter of law and was entitled to a judgment of acquittal. Thirty-five years of age at the time of trial, he testified that he had been addicted to drugs since he was twelve years old, had served up to seven years in prison for nonnarcotics offenses, had engaged in the narcotics traffic in Boston in 1970...

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