Thompson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri; David P. Dyer, Judge. Baseom C. Thompson was convicted of violating Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act Dec. 17, 1914, § 2 (Comp. St. § 6287h), and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
TRIEBER, District Judge.
The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was found guilty by a jury on three counts of an indictment charging him with violations of section 2 of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act of December 17, 1914 (38 Stat. 786, c. 1 [section 6287h, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1918]).
There were four counts to the indictment, but by direction of tbe court the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on the fourth count. The counts are all in the same language, except that each charges the defendant with dispensing morphine sulphate to a different person, at a different…
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