King v. United States

PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing an application for a writ of ha-beas corpus filed by King.

King was charged by an indictment containing five counts, returned in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. The first count charged that King on September 2, 1949, in the Western District of Missouri, did unlawfully sell one-half grain of heroin, a derivative of opium, and one grain of cocaine, a derivative of coca leaves, the same not then and there being sold in pursuance of a written order of the person to whom sold, On a form…