Robert Frederick Huff v. United States

RIVES, Chief Judge.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty on two counts charging violations of Section 545, Title 18 United States Code. 1 Upon the judgment of conviction on that verdict, the defendant was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on each count, the sentences to run concurrently. This appeal ensued.

The first count was based upon the first paragraph of Section 545, quoted in footnote 1, supra, and charged that on or about September 4, 1958, in El Paso County, Texas, the defendant “with intent to defraud the United States, knowingly and wilfully smuggled and clandestinely introduced…