LATHEM v. UNITED STATES

No. 17021.

259 F.2d 393 (1958)

Sam LATHEM, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

September 22, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert S. Phillips, Tampa, Fla., Charlie Luckie, Jr., and George C. Dayton, Dade City, Fla., for appellant.

Richard Kelly, Asst. U. S. Atty., Tampa, Fla., James L. Guilmartin, U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Sam Lathem, a druggist, was tried and convicted on three counts for sales of morphine sulphate in violation of the Narcotic Drug Act, 26 U.S.C. A. § 4705(a). He was sentenced to two years imprisonment on each of the first two counts, these sentences to run concurrently with a sentence to five years imprisonment on the third count. Appellant raises questions in regard to entrapment, probation, his arrest, his confession, the court...

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