United States v. Harry Lee Dickerson

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is one of a number of appeals now pending in this court wherein defendants convicted of unlawful sale of narcotics attack the convictions in reliance upon Lauer v. United States, 320 F.2d 187 (C.A.7, 1963). These appeals, cite Lauer, supra, for the proposition that, the indictments involved therein were constitutionally defective because of failure to name the person to whom the narcotics were alleged to have been sold.

The Lauer case has produced disagreement among the United States Courts of' Appeal, with the Eighth and the Tenth. Circuits deciding not to…