Case Name: PHILIPIAN v. UNITED STATES
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1927-07-05
Citations: 20 F.2d 532
Docket Number: No. 4867
Parties: PHILIPIAN v. UNITED STATES.
Judges: Before DENISON and MOORMAN, Circuit Judges, and HICKS, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 20
Pages: 532–532

Head Matter:
PHILIPIAN v. UNITED STATES.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
July 5, 1927.
No. 4867.
Robert A. Kramer, of Cincinnati, Ohio (Richard Tabibian, of Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for plaintiff in error.
Merrill G. Miner, of Detroit, Mich., for the United States.
Before DENISON and MOORMAN, Circuit Judges, and HICKS, District Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Prosecution under Harrison Act (U. S. C. S., § 6287g; U. S. Code, tit. 26, § 692). Count 1 plainly charges purchase of narcotics in or from an unstamped package; count 2 is probably intended to charge a sale thereof in or from an unstamped package.
The case must be affirmed. The objection that no venue was proved was not made below. Section 1 of the act, to prohibit dealings in unstamped packages, as amended in 1919, is constitutional. Alston v. U. S., 47 S. Ct. 634, 71 L. Ed.-, opinion filed May 16, 1927. When an indictment does not show that defendant was a physician, it is not necessary that it should challenge the rights peculiar to physicians. The narcotics in the form sold were put in evidence, but not sent up with the record. In one instance there was a package. We must assume that it was unstamped. Its possession would support the inference that defendant had purchased it in that unstamped form; the statutory inference goes at least as far as that. A conviction good on one count will support the sentence. The federal officers had no connection with the search and seizure. There was no request to charge as to the effect of an accomplice's testimony, nor any exception to the charge on this point.
The judgment is affirmed.