Biegler v. United States

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant advances two reasons for reversal of that portion of the judgment which sentenced him to imprisonment for the violation of title 21 U.S.C.A. § 174. He questions the sufficiency of the evidence which showed possession of unstamped morphine hydrochloride and heroin hydrochloride, to justify conviction under said section for receiving, etc., the drug knowing the same to have been unlawfully imported.

The authorities do not sustain appellant’s position.a,b

The attempted distinction which appellant makes — namely, that the decision in Yee Hem v. U. S., 268 U.S. 178, 45…