Ben Edward Alexander v. United States

MATHES, Senior District Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment and sentence following a jury’s verdict of guilty of an indictment charging the receipt and concealment, and facilitation of the transportation and concealment, in the District of Arizona, of a quantity of heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 174.

The evidence adduced at the trial disclosed that about 8:00 P.M., on August 24, 1964, a Customs Agent stationed at the Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona, observed appellant’s accomplice, one Arnold, cross the border into the United States driving a 1961 blue Buick automobile bearing license…