Coates v. United States

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for violation of sections 1 and 2 of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act, 26 U.S.C.A. §§ 2553(a) and 2554(a), and of section 2 of the Jones-Miller Act, 21 U.S.C.A. § 174. The three-count indictment charges the accused, in substance, with dispensing a heroin mixture not in or from the original stamped package (§ 2553(a)), selling such a mixture not in pursuance of a written order (§ 2554(a)), and facilitating the concealment and sale of such a mixture knowing that it had been illegally…