Ballestrero v. United States

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was convicted under an indictment which alleged that he had violated the Harrison Anti-Narcotie Act, as amended February 24, 1919 (Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 6287g), “in that the said defendant did then and there knowingly, willfully, unlawfully and feloniously purchase, sell, dispense and distribute a certain derivative of coca leaves, to wit, one bindle of cocaine containing approximately eighteen grains, which said cocaine was not then and there originally in and from the original stamped package.”

It is contended that the indictment is…