Higgins v. United States

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction on the verdict of a jury in a narcotic case. The evidence on ,the trial followed the invariable pattern of similar prosecutions. An informer in the pay of the Government is first searched by an agent, given money and told to effect a purchase of the drug, the agent in the meanwhile following the informer and watching the transaction and thereafter receiving from the informer the evidence of the crime. In the present case the only variation occurred when the informer was placed on the witness stand and denied having any recollection of the events…