Shafer v. United States

The defendant, with others was indicted on three counts. The first count was for receiving upon importation a narcotic drug, knowing it to have been imported contrary to law. The second was for the knowing purchase of a narcotic drug which was not in or from the original stamped package. The third charged all the defendants entered into a conspiracy knowingly to import and to receive this narcotic drug into the United States from Mexico.

The second clause of the statute, 21 U.S.C.A. § 174, under which the indict ment was drawn, makes it a crime to receive a narcotic drug upon importation,…