Poy Coon Tom v. United States

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error to review a judgment of conviction under the Harrison Narcotic Act (Comp. St. §§ 6287g-6287q). The plaintiff in error and one Hughes were jointly indicted for selling, dispensing, and distributing narcotic drugs; not in or from the original stamped package. The testimony on the part of the government tended to show that Hughes made several sales of narcotic drugs to an informer, and that the drugs so sold were procured from the plaintiff in error, Poy Coon Tom. In the course of the trial, the following letter, found in the possession of the…