United States v. Liss

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The defendants appeal from judgments of conviction under an indictment charging them with a conspiracy to violate the laws regulating the sale and dispensing of narcotic drugs. Liss and Conte were the prime actors throughout all the events laid in the indictment. In the first two of three phases they confederated with Rudy; later the venture took on an entirely different character, and Rudy dropped out. The other defendants had various parts in the scheme, and, as will appear, some of them were not shown to have been connected with it at all. Londoner and Palmer, who…