United States v. Yee Fing

BOURQUIN, District Judge.

This is a motion for a new trial. Defendant was charged with unlawful importation of smoking opium and with having knowingly received the same. The prosecution introduced evidence that November .21, 1914, in Anaconda, defendant, an aged Chinese garden and laundry laborer of many years’ local residence, was taken with 2% pounds of smoking opium in his possession. Defendant testified that, about that time at night in an alley near Chinatown in Butte, upon an unknown white man’s solicitation he purchased the opium, paying therefor $100. Thereupon, upon the prosecution’s…