United States v. James A. White

CASTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.

The defendant-appellant, James A. White, prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of conviction and sentence entered by the District Court following his bench trial on an indictment charging him with selling heroin without a written order from the Secretary of the Treasury in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 4705 (1970). 1 The court sentenced him to ten years imprisonment to run consecutively to a sentence of twenty-five years imposed in 1966, also for the sale of narcotics. 2

Defendant sets forth three arguments for the reversal of his conviction: (1) the evidence…