Miller v. United States

KING, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error (hereinafter called defendant) was indicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson Division, for alleged violations of the Harrison Narcotic Act (Comp. St. §§ 6287g-6287q). The indictment contained seven counts. All of the counts except the fourth charged defendant with unlawfully selling, bartering, dispensing, exchanging, distributing, administering, or giving away a certain quantity of morphine, on a given date. Some of these counts charged the defendant with being a person required to be registered…