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- Title: John Rusher v. State Indiana
- Author : Court of Appeals of Indiana
- Release Date : January 16, 1971
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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Defendant (Appellant) was convicted of theft from a coin operated machine. His defense was one of entrapment. The States witness, the arresting police officer, testified that he saw the defendant take the money in question and that the defendants clothing and the money taken from him after the arrest revealed traces of ultra-violet powder with which the coins and coin box had been dusted in preparation for the "stake-out" which he, the officer, had helped to plan and wherein the defendant had been caught. The police officer, on cross-examination, testified that he was acquainted with one Gary Stevens, having met him on one occasion at the police headquarters, approximately six weeks prior to the theft, in the company of representatives of Auto-teria, the victimized company. Another States witness, a Mr. Amy, who was an associate of Auto-teria, testified on direct examination that the money belonged to his company and that he had not given the defendant or his co-defendant permission to take it. On cross-examination he testified that immediately after the arrest of the defendants, he accompanied them and the arresting officer to police headquarters, that his father, brother, several police officers, and the aforenamed Gary Stevens were also there. He also acknowledged that he had had a prior acquaintance with Stevens, and at this point the following question was asked of him: "And, is it not a fact, Mr. Amy, that on or about the