United States v. William Collier

KILEY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of violation of the narcotics law 1 and the judge sentenced him to fifteen years imprisonment.

On the evening of December 11, 1960, narcotics agents received a call from Bed-ford, a “special employee” of the Bureau of Narcotics. They later met and conversed with him and drove him to a hotel in the south side of Chicago. Subsequently defendant drove up to and stopped near the hotel. The agents drove up behind his car. He sped away, was pursued by the agents, and in the chase shook an aluminum packet out of the car window. As agents arrested…