Yip Wah v. United States

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error were convicted under two eounts of an indictment. The first count charged them with conspiracy to receive, conceal, buy, sell, and facilitate the transportation of smoking opium. The second charged them with feloniously receiving, concealing, buying, selling, and facilitating in the transportation of certain described smoking opium, knowing the same to have been imported contrary to law.

It was shown in evidence that the plaintiffs in error, together with one Herbert M. Samuels, wont from San Francisco to Grays Harbor, and there received from a…