Goode v. United States

This is an appeal from a conviction and sentence under the Harrison Narcotic Act as amended.1 The indictment charged that appellant had purchased in the District of Columbia from a person unknown to the Grand Jury “a certain quantity of a certain derivative of opium, to wit, two grains of morphine sulphate,” not in nor from the original stamped packages. The grounds of the appeal are (1), that the verdict was contrary to law, (2), that it was contrary to the evidence, and (3), that the court erred in not directing a verdict of acquittal.

The evidence shows that when appellant was arrested on…