Ng Choy Fong v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eirst Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Ng Choy Fong was convicted of violating Act Cong. Feb. 9, 1909, c. 100, as amended by Act Jan. 17, 1914, c. 9, by having concealed and facilitated the transportation and concealment of opium prepared for smoking purposes, and which she knew was imported into the United States contrary to law, and she brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HUNT, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in error, a Chinese woman, was convicted of violation of the act of Congress of February 9, 1909, as *306amended January 17, 1914, in having.on August 12, 1915, concealed and facilitated the transportation and concealment of 660 five-tael cans of opium' prepared for smoking purposes, which she well knew had been imported into the United States contrary to law. Under the writ of error she assails the constitutionality of the portions of sections. 2 and 3 of the act of February 9, 1909, which provide that on and after July 1, 1913, all smoking opium found within the…
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