Case Name: ROSS v. UNITED STATES
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1928-01-17
Citations: 23 F.2d 679
Docket Number: No. 5041
Parties: ROSS v. UNITED STATES.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 23
Pages: 679–680

Head Matter:
ROSS v. UNITED STATES.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
January 17, 1928.
No. 5041.
B. F. Booth, of Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiff in error.
Lindsay B. Phillips, U. S. Atty., of Memphis, Tenn.
Before .DENISON and MOORMAN, Circuit Judges, and TUTTLE, District Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The conviction on the first count cannot be sustained. It sufficiently alleges carrying on the business of selling by one who was required to register and who had not; but the proof tended to show nothing except the purchase by respondent of narcotics in or from an unstamped package. One who only buys or sells in or from unstamped packages is not required to register. Weaver v. U. S. (C. C. A.) 15 F.(2d) 38; Martin v. U. S. (C. C. A.) 20 F.(2d) 785.
The second count is good. There was substantial evidence to go to the jury. The sentence did not exceed that imposable under the second count. It is affirmed.