United States v. Thomas J. Mancuso

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

18 U.S.C. § 1407 requires any citizen convicted of narcotics or marijuana offenses, as well as those who are addicted to, or “use” narcotic drugs, to register with customs officials on leaving and entering the country.1 The only question on this appeal is whether one who violated the statute without knowledge or probability of knowledge of its provisions may be convicted under it.

On September 20, 1950, Thomas Man-euso was convicted of violating the federal narcotics laws, and sentenced to three years probation. Almost seventeen *557years later, on January 18,…