Homer N. Archambault v. United States

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was charged in a three-count information with dispensing mis-branded habit-forming drugs in unlabeled containers without a prescription contrary to the provisions of 21 U.S.C.A. §§ 331, 333, and 353. The charge grew out of three different sales of sodium pentobarbital capsules which the defendant made to George E. McDonald, an inspector for the United States Food and Drug Administration. The case went to the jury on the evidence of the prosecution and a verdict of guilty was returned on all three counts. The defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for ten…