Raymond Ventura Garcia v. United States

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of being a transferee unlawfully in possession of marihuana in violation of 26 U.S.C.A. § 4744(a) as that statute was effective on July 15, 1956. 1 He now charges that the government failed in sustaining a burden of showing that the drug was acquired by or transferred to him within the jurisdiction of the Colorado trial court. Appellant does not question the sufficiency of the proof relating to actual possession within the State of Colorado.

Having proved appellant’s possession of untaxed marihuana at Golden, Colorado, the government offered no…