Legal Opinion
Lessie B. Henry and Mildred Louise McDavis v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 11, 1954No. 14079_1PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.
Lessie B. Henry and Mildred Louise McDavis are appealing from judgments of conviction for four violations each of § 174, Title 21 U.S.C.A. Two of the offenses related to the facilitation of transportation of heroin and two related to the selling of the heroin transported.
In the month of February, 1953, Franklin J. Stafford, a known narcotics user, who, a couple of years earlier, had been convicted of the possession of narcotics, was in the employ of the Bureau of Narcotics, as an informer. Stafford had known appellant Henry and his mother for over three years and…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Pereira v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Gavieres v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Morey v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Butts v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1921
- Trice v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Henry Rodella v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1960
- James Boyd Brown v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1955
- Fred I. Putnam and James A. Overman v. Harry C. Lower, John Kadlec, George S. Herning, Edgar L. Peecher, William E. Barquist and Norman L. BunkerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1956
- Jerry Henry Green, Algie Satterwhite, James B. Hardaway v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1960
- John H. Barnett v. Clarence T. Gladden, Warden, Oregon State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1967
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