Swartz v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida; Rhydon M. Cali, Judge. S. Swartz and Charlie Chung were separately convicted of having possession of narcotics without having registered as provided by the Harrison Narcotic Law, and each defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge.
The defendant Swartz was found guilty under two counts of an indictment; the first charging a failure to register and having unlawfully in possession 25 grammes of morphine, and the second a like failure to register and an unlawful possession of a certain amount of cocaine. The defendant Chung was found guilty under an indictment which charged him with not having registered as provided by the Harrison Narcotic Act (Comp. St. §§ 62S7g-6287q), and not being authorized to produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, or give away opium or their salts, and…
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