Legal Opinion
Britton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 27, 1932No. 4696PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, with their eo defendants, Reynolds and Claiborne, were convicted on an indictment of one count charging them with conspiring together to commit “the offense of unlawfully receiving, concealing, and facilitating the transportation and concealment Of a large quantity of a certain derivative of opium, to-wit, eighteen (18) ounces of morphine hydrochloride, after being imported contrary to law, knowing the same to have been imported, contrary to law,” in violation of the Narcotic® Drugs Import and Export Act (21 USCA § 171 et seq.).
Notwithstanding the denials…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Williamson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- United States v. RabinowichSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Proffitt v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1920
- Ferracane v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1928
3Cited by4 opinions
- Craig v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1936
- Mitchell v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1946
- United States v. Louis W. Nathan, Gaetano Alviti, Frank C. Tornabene, Patrick J. Knight and Joseph A. GiralamoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1957
- Biegler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1936