King v. United States

BOURQUIN, District Judge.

To conviction for unlawfully importing smoking opium and likewise buying, receiving, and concealing it, the principal error assigned by defendant below is that the evidence was secured by illegal search and seizure.

Ignoring, as we must, papers included in the transcript, but not in either the bill of exceptions or the record proper, the bill discloses that Hamer, a federal officer, had “reliable and positive information that Richard E. King was engaged in the transportation of smoking opium and other narcotics”; that Hamer know a certain boat had arrived that morning,…