Robert Lewis Eason and Kenneth Lamoyne Nowlin v. United States

MERRILL, Circuit Judge.

Narcotics were found secreted in appellants’ car. Appellants denied knowledge of the presence -of the narcotics and established the possibility that they could have been secreted by others without knowledge of appellants. Under the circumstances, could the jury properly infer from the presence of the narcotics that appellants had knowledge of such presence? We hold, under the circumstances of this case, that such inference was available.

This appeal is taken from judgment of conviction of the crime of illegal importation into the United States of marihuana (21 U.S.C.A. §…