Legal Opinion
Thomas Mendoza Aguilar v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 8, 1966No. 19836_1PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.
Aguilar was caught crossing the border from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Ysidro, California, at the American customs checkpoint while driving another’s automobile which had about 98 pounds of marijuana in small packages secreted within it. None were visible without prying. He was charged with smuggling the stuff across the line and with having transported and concealed it. A jury was waived and the district judge found him guilty. A concurrent sentence was imposed for the two counts. We affirm.
The first point on the appeal attacks the sufficiency of the evidence of…
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- Roy Joseph Travis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1966
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