James Whiting v. United States

HARTIGAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the appellant from a judgment of conviction on six counts of an indictment arising under 26 U.S.C. § 4705(a) and 21 U.S.C.A. § 174, relating to the sales of heroin to a government agent on three separate occasions at Springfield, Massachusetts.

The trial originally estimated by the attorneys for the government and appel lant to last some three days consumed ten trial days and a record of some 1045 pages on relatively simple issues, apparently owing to conspicuous redundancies on the part of both counsel and the court’s allowance of frequent lapses…