Juan Araujo-Lopez v. United States

Defendant was convicted of the sale of heroin to government agents, knowing it to have been illegally brought into the United States. While the sale took place near the Mexican border, the heroin was not then being smuggled across. The sale was arranged, and the purchase money received, by a codefendant who pleaded guilty to a lesser offense and testified against appellant.

Considering the evidence in its most favorable light to the Government, as we must on this appeal, we can find in the record no satisfactory proof of any possession, either actual or implied, of the heroin in appellant, or…