Oliver v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Bluefield; Charles A. Woods, Judge. Edward T. Oliver was convicted of violating the Harrison Narcotic Act, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WATKINS, District Judge.
Edward T. Oliver, the plaintiff in error, a druggist at Bluefield, W. Va., was convicted in the District Court of the Southern District of West Virginia upon an indictment charging him in two counts with violation of the Harrison Narcotic Act (Comp. St. §§ 6287g-6287q). Each count charged him with having in his possession and under his control a certain fluid compound, manufacture, derivative, and preparation of opium, commonly called paregoric, which contained two grains of opium in each fluid ounce thereof, and that he feloniously, unlawfully, and in violation of the…
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