Bellomini v. United States

This conviction for violating the Harrison Anti-Nareotie Act was based solely on count 2 of the indictment; the other counts being withdrawn from the jury. Count 2 seems to have been intended to charge an offense under section 8 of the act (section 6287n, Comp. St.), but with some aid from section 1 as amended February 24, 1919 (section 6287g, Comp. St, Ann. Supp. 1919). The part of this count now important is quoted in the margin.1

Since section 8 denounces only possession by a person not registered, it has been well understood, since the Jin Fney Moy Case, 241 U. S. 394, 36 S. Ct. 658, 60 L.…