Case ID: f2d_6/html/0149-01.html
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Author: {"author": "RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BARKER v. UNITED STATES.
    (Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    June 15, 1925.
    Rehearing Denied August 3, 1925.)
    No. 4534.
    Poisons <@=>9 — Indictment for selling morphine
    held sufficient.
    An indictment charging that defendant did unlawfully “purchase, sell, dispense, and distribute * * * morphine, which said morphine was not then and there in, nor from, the original stamped package,” held sufficient.
    In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Northern District of California; Frank H. Kerrigan, District Judge.
    Criminal prosecution by the United States against John Scott Barker. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
    Affirmed.
    John Scott Barker, of Washington, D. C., in pro. per.
    Sterling Carr, U. S. Atty., and T. J. Sheridan, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal.
    Before HUNT, RUDKIN, and McCAMANT, Circuit Judges.
   RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ

of error to review a judgment of conviction under the Harrison Narcotic Act (Comp. St. §§ 6287g-6287q). The indictment contains three counts. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty as to counts 1 and 2, and guilty as to count 3. The third count charges that on a date named, within the jurisdiction of the court, the plaintiff in error did unlawfully, willfully, knowingly, and feloniously purchase, sell, dispense, and distribute a certain derivative of opium, to wit, about two grains of morphine, which said morphine was not then and there in, nor from, the original, stamped package. This count is sufficient in law. Stubbs v. United States (C. C. A.) 1 F.(2d) 837; Sam Wong v. United States (C. C. A.) 2 F.(2d) 969. And in the absence of a bill of exceptions we cannot review the other errors assigned.

The judgment is affirmed.