Opinion ID: 1547547
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Heading: Second Count.

Text: The evidence on this count varies as to the different defendants, but is sufficient to make an issue for the jury, except as to Daman Lewis, and it tends to show that the other defendants had a joint or common interest in the secreted drugs. Jimmie Graham is clearly guilty on his own confession, corroborated as it is in its essential details by other witnesses. Seth Lewis seems to have been the head of the gang, was proprietor of the hotel, and, according to Audine Merritt, supplied her with drugs, which she sold, accounting to him for the proceeds. She says he made arrangements by which she obtained narcotics. Myrtle Neal also testified that she rode with Lewis in an automobile, and that in the course of a conversation he told her where she could get stuff whenever she wanted to buy any. Roy O'Fallon, in his confession, attempts to incriminate the other defendants rather than himself. It, however, shows guilty knowledge on his part, and there is testimony that he supplied both Myrtle Neal and Audine Merritt with drugs. One of them says she paid him over $300 out of her profits. The conviction of John O'Fallon should stand, if we follow Waldeck v. U. S. (C. C. A.) 2 F.(2d) 243, and Webb v. U. S., 8 F. (2d) 145 (C. C. A. 8th Cir.), sustaining convictions on the evidence of accomplices alone. In addition, he was part owner of the drug store where, according to the addicts, they bought their supply. One of them testified that on several occasions she obtained drugs from him under an arrangement by which she was to use what she wanted and sell the balance. This she did, and gave him $300 out of the proceeds. The conviction of Daman Lewis on this count should be reversed, being wholly unsupported by any evidence.