United States v. Lo Curto

DISSENTING OPINION

Bland, Judge:

Paragraph 1565 reads as follows:

Pae. 1565-. Cyanide: Potassium cyanide, sodium cyanide, all cyanide salts and cyanide mixtures, combinations, and compounds containing cyanide, not specially provided for. [Italics mine.]

Congress may not have known much about cyanide when it prepared this paragraph, but it certainly did evidence a desire to include •all cyanide substances. It was particular to include certain named cyanides as well as cyanide mixtures, combinations, and compounds containing cyanide.

Mr. Justice Brown asked Mr. McSorley the following question:

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