Cline v. United States

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Cline, plaintiff in error, was convicted of the charge of selling ten grains of morphine to John Sivewright, and thereon sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The transaction and Cline’s connection therewith was brought about in this way: A government narcotic agent arrested one John E. Sivewright, without warrant, about 2 o’clock at night and took him to the agent’s office in Kansas City, where the agent interrogated Sivewright and then released him with instructions to report a.t the office the next morning at 10 o’clock. Sivewright testified that…