Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

70 Wash. 2d 383

422 P.2d 823

State v. Curry

Washington Supreme Court

Decided January 26, 1967

Washington Supreme Court · decided 1967-01-26

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“The trial court refused to give an instruction on entrapment, and properly so. The defendant did not testify. There is no evidence as to his state of mind; no evidence to indicate that he was lured or inveigled into making this sale . . . The person to whom the sale was made, though a decoy and an informer, merely afforded the defendant the opportunity to make the sale. This does not warrant an instruction on entrapment.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 80 Wash. 2d 7 - State v. Waggoner

Relies on State v. Berry · 69 Wash. 2d 432 - State v. Gray · 29 Wash. 2d 869 - City of Seattle v. Gleiser

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1967-01-26

How this case has been cited

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1981

6 state decisions

40196719701980decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

Per Curiam. —

¶1 A jury found the defendant guilty of a violation of the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act. From the judgment and sentence, based upon the verdict, the defendant appeals.

¶2 The evidence showed the sale by the defendant of 13 gelatin capsules of heroin (one of which he was permitted to keep) for $100.

¶3 The evidence of the sale and delivery of the heroin was so conclusive that the only reason for reversal urged on this appeal is entrapment, or rather the even narrower ground that the sale being to a decoy or informer an entrapment instruction should have been given, even though the defendant did not testify.

¶4 The trial court refused to give an instruction on entrapment, and properly so. The defendant did not testify. There is no evidence as to his state of mind; no evidence to indicate that he was lured or inveigled into making this *384 sale of heroin. The person to whom the sale was made, though a decoy and an informer, merely afforded the defendant the opportunity to make the sale. This does not warrant an instruction on entrapment. State v. Gray, 69 Wn.2d 432, 418 P.2d 725 (1966); Seattle v. Gleiser, 29 Wn.2d 869, 189 P.2d 967 (1948); State v. Berry, 200 Wash. 495, 93 P.2d 782 (1939).

¶5 The judgment appealed from is affirmed.

/70/wash2d/383 · .json · Public domain