United States v. Cox

MATTHES, Chief Judge.

Appellants Cox, Branch and Miller are three of the 17 persons named in a thirty-count indictment which resulted from uncovering in Kansas City, Missouri, a large narcotics ring.1 The three above-named appellants were jointly tried, and in separate verdicts, were found guilty as charged in Count I of the indictment. This count alleged a conspiracy by all 17 defendants, and other persons not named as defendants, to violate 21 U.S.C. §§ 173 and 174, which proscribe trafficking in a narcotic drug knowing it to have been illegally imported.2

The charges against appellant…