NEIGHBORS v. COMMONWEALTH


197 S.E.2d 207 (1973)

214 Va. 18

Wilford Harley NEIGHBORS v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 11, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Kennett, Jr., Roanoke, for plaintiff in error.

Gilbert W. Haith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN and POFF, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The defendant, Wilford Harley Neighbors, was found guilty by a jury of distributing the controlled drug morphine sulphate. The punishment fixed by the jury, twenty years in the penitentiary, was imposed by the trial court. We granted a writ of error to review the trial court's refusal to submit to the jury the defense of entrapment.

The principal witness for the Commonwealth was W. M. Patterson. He testified that he had been a drug addict and,...

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