Nutter v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern. District of West Virginia, at Elkins; William E. Baker, Judge. Thomas L. Nutter was convicted of selling morphine, and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error, defendant below and so designated here, was tried on an indictment of five counts, charging as many forbidden sales of morphine to that number of different people. He was acquitted on all but the first, which alleged that he had made a sale to one Acé Williams. On that he was convicted, and to reverse the resulting judgment he has sued out this writ of error.
[1] Williams was an addict. He was searched by a government officer to make sure that he had no drugs on his person, given $4, and sent to buy morphine from the defendant. According to his…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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