Cleveland Burgess v. United States

FAHY, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellant was indicted and convicted on six counts charging violations of the narcotic laws. The first three counts grew out of three phases of a transaction involving heroin alleged to have been engaged in by appellant on March 22, 1967: (1) the sale, barter, exchange, and giving away of the drug not in pursuance of a written order;1 (2) its purchase, sale, dispensing, and distribution not in or from the original stamped package;2 and (3) facilitating its concealment and sale after its knowing importation into the United States contrary to law.3 The three…