Clarence Derose v. United States

DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge.

Convicted of selling a narcotic drug unlawfully imported into the United States (21 U.S.C. § 174) and of forcibly resisting federal officers who were engaged in performance of their duties (18 U.S.C. §§ 111 and 1114), DeRose appeals. He attacks only the narcotics conviction, for which he was sentenced to five years. (Sentence on the other count was one year, concurrent).

At the trial, DeRose testified that on February 9, 1962 he took a “special employee” of the government, one Douglas, to a place in San Francisco where the drug was “stashed,” showed him the narcotic…