¶1*286Tom N. Goodwin, John E. Fitzgibbon, Laredo, Tex., for appellant.
¶2James R. Gough, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., Morton Hollander, Martin Jacobs, Attys., Dept, of Justice, Washington, D. C., Morton L. Susman, U. S. Atty., Ronald J. Blask, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for appellee.
¶3Before GEWIN, THORNBERRY and DYER, Circuit Judges.
¶5McCarty appeals from his conviction by a jury on his plea of not guilty on two counts of an indictment charging respectively transporting and facilitating the transportation and concealment of marijuana in violation of Title 21 U.S.C.A. § 176a and failure to pay the marijuana transfer tax in violation of Title 26 U.S. C.A. § 4744(a) (2).
¶6The sole issue raised on this appeal is whether the District Judge erred in refusing to give an instruction on entrapment requested by the defendant. We conclude there was no error and affirm.
¶7Before deciding whether the evidence raised an issue of entrapment we must decide in light of the fact that McCarty denies committing the acts charged whether he is entitled to raise the “affirmative defense” of entrapment. The government contends that a defendant cannot deny that he has committed the act constituting the offense, as McCarty did here1 and still rely on entrapment.2
¶8This Circuit has considered this point numerous times. Beatty v. United States, 5 Cir., 377 F.2d 181; Sears v. United States, 343 F.2d 139 (1965); Marko v. United States, 314 F.2d 595 (1963); Henderson v. United States, 237 F.2d 169 (1956); Rodriquez v. United States, 227 F.2d 912 (1955); Hamilton v. United States, 221 F.2d 611 (1955); Siglar v. United States, 208 F.2d 865 (1954).
¶9McCarty presses Sears and Henderson as modifying the rule laid down in the other cases which upheld the government’s contention. But the rationale of these two cases also supports the government’s position. In both Sears and Henderson the defendant was indicted for *287conspiracy and raised the issue of entrapment with regard to a particular overt act. The court held in both cases that the defendant could deny being a party to a conspiracy and yet raise the issue that any overt acts done by him were done because of entrapment. The rationale of these cases was that inconsistencies in defenses in criminal cases are allowable so long as the proof of one does not necessarily disprove the other. Henderson, supra, 237 F.2d at 173, Sears, supra,343 F.2d at 143. In both cases proof that the defendant was not a member of a conspiracy would not have necessarily disproved that he was entrapped into committing a particular overt act. In the instant case, however, proof that McCarty did not commit the acts constituting the sole offense charged necessarily disproves that he was entrapped into doing the offense. We hold this to be too great a degree of inconsistency in defenses to be permitted. Henderson, supra, 237 F.2d at 1733
¶10Once on the stand McCarty had a choice: deny the acts constituting the offense or admit that he committed the acts but contend that he was entrapped. Having elected to deny that he committed the acts charged he was not entitled to an instruction on entrapment. The judgment is
¶11Affirmed.