Chin Wah v. United States

(after stating the facts as above). The evidence was certainly sufficient to convict Ing Lee on the conspiracy count. The Chinaman who ordered the trunk to be sent to 113 Court street was, of course, in complicity with the senders and knew its contents. The drug is extremely valuable, and people do not send it such long distances to unadvised consignees. Nor did this unidentified Chinaman send it to 113 Court street without prearrangement with some one there. The only question was whether the intended receiver was one or more of the three defendants or another person, the proprietor of the…