United States v. Clifton W. Holland

BAZELON, Chief Judge:

Appellant was convicted of violating 26 U.S.C. § 4704(a) (purchase, sale, or receipt of narcotic drugs not in the original stamped package and without the appropriate tax-paid stamps) and 21 U. S.C. § 174 (facilitation of concealment and sale of narcotic drugs, knowing the same to have been imported illegally). He was sentenced to two to eight years on the first charge and to five years on the second, the terms to be served concurrently.

The Government presented only two witnesses before it rested. The first was Detective Winston Norman, one of the police officers who made…