Nelson v. United States

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a prosecution under section 2 of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Law, 36 Stat. 785 (Comp. Stat. § 6287h). The defendant, William M. Nelson, was convicted upon four counts of the indictment. Two of these counts charge that the Nelson Drug Company, a corporation doing business as a druggist, had registered and paid the special tax required by the act; that the defendant was president of the corporation, and sold to a named purchaser a quantity of paregoric, which contained two grains of opium in each fluid ounce; and that the sale was not made in pursuance of a written…