Gerardi v. United States

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was convicted in tbe District Court of Massachusetts upon an indictment which charged him in three counts with possession *190of morphine hydrochloride, an opium derivative, and in two counts with its sale. In all the counts it is alleged that he was required to register, but had not registered,, with the collector of internal revenue, and had not paid the special tax required by law. He was found guilty upon all the counts, and sentenced upon each to serve a term of three years at hard labor in the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, the sentences to run…