Poliafico v. United States

McALLISTER, Circuit Judge.

All of the appellants were indicted for conspiracy to violate the narcotic laws,1 and a number of them were also charged with various substantive offenses involv*102ing violations of the same laws. The conspiracy was, as claimed by the government, widespread and long continued, involving many persons. Eighteen of the twenty defendants actually went to trial. An order of severance was made as to one defendant, because of his illness; one pleaded guilty before trial; the district court dismissed the case against another; and the jury found one defendant not guilty. The…