Mildred Juanita Adams v. United States

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted on two counts of selling heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C.A. § 174, on evidence which may be summarized as follows: McKinney, a Government informer, drug addict, and confidence man with a record of several convictions, testified that he met appellant about October 1, 1953, at Dallas, Texas, through a mutual friend and fellow addict whom he had met at the Fort Worth U. S. Public Health Hospital. On the occasion of his meeting with appellant, they and several others took some heroin in McKinney’s apartment, according to his testimony. He saw her…