Government of the Virgin Islands v. Felix Carrion Hernandez, and Iris Lopez Hernandez

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROSENN, Circuit Judge

Husband and wife, Felix and Iris Hernandez, were tried to a jury in a joint trial in the District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands and convicted for possession of heroin with intent to manufacture or distribute it, in violation of 19 V.I.C. § 604(a) (1). They appeal from their judgments of conviction, in which Felix Hernandez was sentenced to fifteen years incarceration and his wife to ten to fifteen years.

The entire case against appellants consisted of testimony about,, and display to the jury of, a number of items seized by the Narcotics…