UNITED STATES v. MORRIS

No. 332, Docket 25327.

269 F.2d 100 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. John MORRIS, Morris Billings, and Gloria Billings, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided July 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barlow Smith, New York City, for defendant-appellant John Morris.

Edward Q. Carr, Jr., New York City (Florence M. Kelley, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellants Morris Billings and Gloria Billings.

Charles Norman Shaffer, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Southern District of New York, New York City (S. Hazard Gillespie, Jr., U. S. Atty., for the Southern District of New York, N. Y. and Kevin Thomas Duffy, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, on the brief), for appellee, United States of America.

Before HINCKS and LUMBARD, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, District Judge.


J. JOSEPH SMITH, District Judge.

John Morris, Morris Billings and Gloria Billings appeal from judgments of conviction on trial without a jury before Hon. John M. Cashin in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. John Morris and Thelma Penson were charged in the first count with an unlawful sale of heroin on July 19, 1957 in violation of 21 U.S.C.A. §§ 173 and 174. John Morris, Morris Billings, Gloria Billings and Thelma Penson...

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