Bernardino Chirez Hernandez v. United States

BROWNING, Circuit Judge.

21 U.S.C. § 174, 21 U.S.C.A. § 174 1 makes it a federal offense to import narcotic drugs illegally or to deal with such drugs knowing that they have been illegally imported. The statute provides that whenever the defendant is shown “to have * * * possession” of nar cotic drugs, “such possession” shall be sufficient to convict unless explained to the satisfaction of the jury. We have held in earlier cases that a defendant has “possession” of narcotic drugs within the meaning of the statute whenever the evidence, direct or circumstantial, shows that he personally shared…