Chester White v. United States

MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant, Chester White, was tried to a jury and convicted on all four counts of an indictment charging him in Counts I and II with the unlawful acquisition of marijuana on November 30, 1962 and December 2, 1962 without payment of the requisite transfer tax (26 U.S.C.A. §§ 4741(a), 4744(a)) and in Counts III and IV with the unlawful possession and sale of heroin without a government order on December 23, 1962 (21 U.S.C.A. § 174 and 26 U.S.C.A. § 4705(a)). As a second offender of marijuana violations, defendant received fifteen year sentences for each conviction on…