United States v. Carney

REED', District Judge.

The indictment (omitting formal parts) charges:

“That on or about the 15th day of September, 1915, at Mason City, Iowa, within the jurisdiction of this court, the defendant did, knowingly and unlawfully, have in his possession a large quantity of morphine, to wit, about 140 tablets, each containing one-fourth of a grain of morphine, which said morphine was a derivative of opium, without having theretofore registered with the collector of internal revenue for the district of Iowa his name and place of business, and paid to said collector the special tax as provided and…