Willsman v. United States

JOHNSON, District Judge.

Plaintiff in error Henry Wülsman and one Bert Grant were convicted of a violation'of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act (Comp. St. §§ 6287g-6287q). They thereupon sued out a writ of error to this court. The defendant Grant subsequently abandoned the prosecution of the writ and is serving his sentence in Leavenworth.

The indictment contained four counts. The trial court directed a verdict for the defendants upon the first and second counts and submitted the third and fourth counts, with instructions that the defendants could be convicted upon one only of the two counts…