Coleman v. United States

PHILLIPS, District Judge.

Robert Coleman was charged by indictment containing thirteen counts with violations of section 1 of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act (U. S. Code, tit. 26, § 692 [26 USCA § 692; Comp. St. § 6287g]). The trial resulted in his conviction and sentence upon the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth counts. Each of these counts charged an unlawful sale of “a certain derivative of opium, to wit, * * * morphine, * * * said morphine not being in or from the original stamped package.” The testimony in behalf of the government showed that on December 9, 1926, the date the sale charged…