United States v. Siegel

JOHN B. SANBORN, District Judge.

Bennie Siegel was tried and convicted of a violation of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act (Comp. St. §■§ 6287g-6287q) in. October, 1926. Tbe evidence of tbe government showed that on the 10th day of April, 1926, he sold to an addict by the name of Lang an ounce of morphine, and received $55; that Lang received the $55 from government officers of the Narcotic Department; that two of them accompanied him to the pool room where the purchase was made; that two others saw Siegel come out of this place and approach a man by the name of Kurtz, from whom he apparently…