Agnello v. United States

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

The defendants have been convicted under an indictment which charged them with the crime of conspiracy to commit the offense of selling heroin and cocaine without having registered or paid the .tax prescribed and in violation of the Act of December 17, 1914 (38 St. c. 1, p. 785) as amended by sections 1006, 1007, .and 1008 of the Revenue Act of 1918 (40 St. c. 18, pp. 1057-1132 [Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, §§ 6287g, 62871, 6287r]), commonly known as the Harrison Act. Each defendant has been sentenced to be imprisoned for a term of two years at Atlanta Penitentiary and to…