Wilbur Newton Davis v. United States

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

Convicted of conspiracy to violate the narcotics laws, the defendant on appeal raises a multitude of hypertechnical objections.

While the indictment clearly charges a conspiracy to traffic in heroin, Davis contends the indictment is invalid because it charges that the offenses contemplated by the conspiracy were in violation of the Act of December 17, 1914, “commonly known as the Harrison Narcotic Act, and Acts amendatory thereof * * Davis says the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 1 repealed the Harrison Act and was not an amendment of the earlier statute. He points to…