Newman v. States

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

The indictment in this case charged E. R. Newman, a practicing physician of Elkins, W. Va., duly registered as required by law, with violating the Harrison Narcotic Act (Comp. Stat. §§ 6287g-6287q). The indictment contained four counts. The first and third counts charged that defendant knowingly and feloniously gave, distributed, dispensed, and furnished on May 7, 1922, and June 6, 1922, to one John Walter McD'onald, a narcotic inspector, 16 one-fourth grain morphine tablets and 6 grains of morphine, on the respective dates, not in the course of his regular professional…