United States v. William Ragland

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

After a jury trial appellant was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut for aiding and abetting a narcotics transaction prohibited by 26 U.S.C. § 4705(a) and for conspiring to effectuate such a transaction in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371.

On January 10, 1966, Agent Wayne Valentine of the Bureau of Narcotics was riding along Barbour Street in Hartford, Connecticut, in a car being driven by Joseph Allevo, an informant of the Bureau. Clyde Wilson, who was subsequently jointly indicted with appellant, 1 was standing on Barbour Street…