Legal Opinion
Willie Hugh Dailey v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 11, 1959No. 16849PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
Willie Hugh Dailey was indicted, tried, and convicted on two counts of violating the narcotic laws. 26 U.S.C.A. §§ 4722, 5705(a). He was sentenced to five years on each count, the sentences to run concurrently. We affirm the judgment.
Dailey was a pharmacist for a drugstore in Atlanta, Georgia. April 16, 1957, without a prescription, Dailey sold twenty tablets of one-grain morphine sulphate to a merchant seaman for $100. The profit is big in an illegal sale of narcotics; the legitimate retail price for twenty morphine tablets is less than a dollar. Dailey passed the…
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- Vanderbilt v. VanderbiltSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
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