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From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob])
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Real Entrapment
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Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 11:44:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 11:44:47 1984
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I think most states have laws that outlaw "Man traps
and Spring guns" and I believe this was passed down to
us by English common law.  Is this true lawyerpersons ?

In Georgia, in the mid 70s a store owner rigged a blasting
cap to his cigarette machine which was located on the front
porch of his store.  A sixteen year old boy had the femoral
artery in his leg cut by blasting cap fragments and he bled
to death.  The store owner was tried and convicted of manslaughter
if I remember correctly.  Vandalizing and robbing a cigarette
machine is not usually a capital offense and the "man trap -
spring gun" principle had application in this case.

"I am not a lawyer nor do I know any"


Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}
AT&T Technologies, Inc.............. Norcross, Ga
(404) 447-3784 ...  Cornet 583-3784