United States v. Simon

BIGGS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was a practicing physician in the State of New Jersey for some years. He was indicted for violation of the Harrison Narcotic Act, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev. Code, § 2550 et seq., in that as a physician who had duly registered and paid the taxes required by Section 2 of the act, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Code, § 2554, he unlawfully and knowingly sold to Mildred McDermott one hundred sixty-three quarter grain tablets of morphine, not in pursuance of any written order on the form issued for that purpose by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and not in good faith and not…