Mary Helen Burton v. United States

BARNES, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of the receipt, concealment and transportation of eighty-eight grains of illegally imported heroin. 21 U.S.C.A. § 174. Appeal is timely and this Court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.

We first adopt, with slight changes, the introductory statement of appellant’s opening brief which is as follows:

“Defendants Edwin Stewart and Mary Helen Burton were originally indicted in May of 1957, under Case No. 25917, of one count of violation of Title 21, § 174 of the United States Code, the illegal concealment and transportation of…