STRUM, Circuit Judge.
Defendant below, Roy Preston Burford, appeals from a conviction of having unlawfully acquired and had possession of 55 grains, more or less, of bulk marijuana, in Houston, Texas, on July 4, 1953, without having paid the transfer tax thereon, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 2593(a).
The defendant was sentenced to serve ten years in the penitentiary, and to pay a fine of $1.00, that being the minimum sentence, as the defendant was a third...
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