Ernest Leroy Ivey v. United States

WHITAKER, Senior Judge.

Appellant, the defendant below, was convicted of the unlawful importation of a narcotic into the Uuited States, in that he had aided and abetted in its importation, which, under 18 U.S.C. § 2 (1958), made him guilty as a principal.

Ivey and his wife, Ruth Darlene Ivey, accompanied by Margaret Sue Smith and a man named Jimmy Garcia, went to Roma, Texas, or thereabouts, in a white Oldsmobile belonging to Margaret Sue Smith. Either before arrival in Roma or shortly thereafter, the men separated from the women, but, according to a confession alleged to have been made by…