RIOS v. UNITED STATES

No. 15723.

256 F.2d 173 (1958)

Jose Terrones RIOS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

May 26, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey M. Grossman, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., Leila F. Bulgrin, Lloyd F. Dunn, Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before POPE, FEE and HAMLEY, Circuit Judges.


HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.

Jose Terrones Rios appeals from his conviction for violating § 2 of the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, as amended, 21 U.S.C.A. § 174.

Rios contends that it was error to receive in evidence a package of narcotics which had been seized by city police, where a state court had supressed the same evidence, and acquitted, in a prosecution involving the identical incident.

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