429 F2d 530 United States v. Shoemaker  429 F.2d 530  UNITED
STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, Carl Dean SHOEMAKER,
Defendant-Appellant.  No. 20044.  United States Court of
Appeals, Eighth Circuit.  Aug. 5, 1970.  Angelo J. Falcone,
Kansas City, Mo., for defendant-appellant.  Calvin K. Hamilton,
First Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiff-
appellee; Bert C. Hurn, U.S. Atty., and Frederick O. Griffin,
Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., on the brief.  Before
MATTHES, Chief Judge, JOHNSEN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LAY,
Circuit Judge.  LAY, Circuit Judge.   Defendant appeals his
conviction on two counts of dispensing and distributing
narcotics in violation of 26 U.S.C.A. 4704(a). Defendant's
singular attack in this court is that the evidence establishes
the defense of entrapment as a matter of law, that he was a
'purchasing agent' for the government rather than the seller of
the narcotics. We affirm.   The transactions for which defendant
was convicted involve two occasions in which he obta