Legal Opinion
United States v. Melvin Simons
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 24, 1967No. 15691_1PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KILEY, Circuit Judge.
Simons has appealed from his conviction by the district court without a jury on four counts of an indictment, Counts 1 and 3 of which charged unlawful sales of heroin in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 4705(a) and Counts 2 and 4 of which charged the facilitating of those alleged unlawful sales in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 174. He was sentenced to serve concurrent terms of eleven years on each count. We affirm the conviction.
A narcotics agent was introduced to Simons by a government informer on April 14, 1965. On that day and again on April 16, the agent purchased heroin from…
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