Williams v. United States

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff in error was convicted of violating section 2 of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Law (38 Stat. 785 [Comp. St. § 6287h]), by selling to a named person “one-sixteenth (1/i«th) of an ounce of morphine, the same being a compound of opium, not in the regular course” of his professional practice as a physician, and not for the treatment of any disease, but for the purpose of satisfying the craving of one addicted to the use of' morphine.

*683'The trial court admitted evidence of other sales and of administering morphine by the plaintiff in error to the same person on many other…