Melanson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District óf Texas; William R. Smith, Judge. M. C. Melanson and Guillermo Q. Ellsworth were convicted of violations of and conspiracy.to violate the Harrison Narcotic Act, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
GRUBB, District Judge.
The plaintiffs in error were convicted under two separate, but similar, indictments; each charging violations of section 2 of the Harrison Narcotic Act (Act Dec. 17, 1914, c. 1, 38 Stat. 786 [Comp. St. § 6287h]), and of a conspiracy to violate that section of the act, under section 37 of the Penal Code of the United States (Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, 35 Stat. 1096 [Comp. St. § 10201]), in separate counts. The trials were separate, but the questions presented by the appeals, with one exception, are the same.
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