Saunders v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee; John E. McCall, Judge. A. E. Saunders and Eeon S. Thompson were convicted of violating Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act Dec. 17, 1914, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARRINGTON, Circuit Judge.
December XI, 1917, A. L. Saunders, a licensed physician, and Leon S. Thompson, a druggist, both of Memphis, Tenn., were indicted for violation of the Act of Congress (Act Dec. 17, 1914, c. 1, 38 Stat. 785 [Comp. St. §§ 6287g~6287q]), known as the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Law. On the 18th of that month they were tried by court and jury and found guilty; and on the following January 16th motion for new trial was denied and defendants were sentenced.
The indictment in substance charged that under a fictitious prescription defendants sold and dispensed one-eighth of an…
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