Lee Kwong Nom v. United States

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error were convicted on two counts of an indictment charging a violation of subdivision e, section 2, of the Act of Eeb. 9, 1909, c. 100, as amended by Act Jan. 17, 1914, and by Act May 20,1922, § 1 (Comp. St. § 8801). The first count charged unlawful, willful, and fraudulent importation of two cans of smoking opium, and the second count unlawfully and willfully facilitating the transportation and concealment of the two cans of smoking opium after having imported them into the United States. It was established at the trial that on December 18, 1922,…