Frazier v. United States

Appellant was convicted under an indictment which charged that he did “knowingly, wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously purchase, sell, dispense, and distribute certain narcotic drugs, to wit, nineteen one-half grain synettes [sic] of morphine tartrate and twenty one-half grain codeine sulphate tablets, which said narcotic drugs were not then and there, in or from, the original stamped package.” The Internal Revenue Code, U.S.C.A., Title 26, § 2553, made it '‘unlawful for any person to purchase,- sell, dispense, or distribute any of the drugs mentioned * * * except in the original stamped…