Harris v. United States

ROVER, Chief Judge.

Appellant was convicted of narcotics vagrancy pursuant to Code 1951, § 33-416a (Supp. VIII). 1 He had a prior conviction as a narcotic drug user, and having been found in a place where narcotics were kept, found, used or dispensed was thus classified as a narcotics vagrant within the meaning of the act. He received a sentence of one year from which he appeals.

The facts upon which the conviction rests are as follows. On the morning of August 26, 1959, several officers of the Metropolitan Police Department Narcotics Squad, acting under a search warrant issued on information…