United States v. Robert L. Samuel

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

While serving a sentence in Lorton Reformatory, defendant was convicted of the receipt, concealment and transportation of heroin hydrochloride knowing that the drug had been unlawfully imported in violation of 21 U.S.C.A. §§ 173 and 174. He received a sentence of five years, service to begin upon the expiration of the sentence he was serving at the time of the new offense. The charges against a codefendant were dismissed at the close of the government’s case.

The principal evidence to support the conviction was the testimony of a fellow-inmate, Stanley Mullin, who had…