Legal Opinion

Toy v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided May 12, 1920No. 144PublishedCited by 20 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Charley Toy and Lee Gip were prosecuted by the'United States, and convicted under two indictments, one for concealing smoking opium, the other for manufacturing smoking opium, and they bring error.

1Opinion of the Court

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The defendant in error has asked for, and has been granted, a reargument on this writ of error, appealing *327from a judgment of conviction of the crime of concealing smoking opium and manufacturing smoking opium. We heretofore reversed the judgment of conviction, for the reason that, as announced in the opinion filed, error was committed by the trial court in placing the plaintiffs in error on trial on two indictments charging inconsistent offenses, and further that it was incumbent upon the government to prove that the opium in question was in fact imported. We held, in…

2Cases cited8 opinions

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  4. Webb v. DenSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
  5. United States v. Yee FingDistrict Court, D. Montana · 1915

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3Cited by20 opinions

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