Eckert v. United States

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff in error was convicted on five counts of an indictment which charged him with sales of narcotic drugs in alleged violation of tho Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act as amended (U. S. Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 6287g et seq.). The sales were made in St. Louis on different days to different persons in 1920, two in January, two in May, and one in September. Pour of the counts are in the same form. Each charges that Charles V. Eckert, on the day named, made a sale to the person named, in the manner following:

That Thomas S. Maiming, a physician duly registered with the…