Lee Edgar Sartain v. United States

ORR, Circuit Judge.

Appellant stands convicted on four counts of an indictment charging him with violations of the federal narcotics laws, 21 U.S.C.A. § 174 and 26 U.S.C.A. § 4704(a). He alleges the following as error: (1) the denial by the trial court of his motion for a bill of particulars, (2) the trial court’s failure to include on its own motion a special instruction respecting the credibility of a paid government witness, and (3) the refusal to' exclude from evidence certain narcotics discovered in appellant’s briefcase subsequent to his arrest.

The record reveals the following facts. On…