UNITED STATES v. ARNOLD

No. 414, Docket 25739.

292 F.2d 500 (1961)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Nathaniel ARNOLD, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided July 10, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon H. Elsen, Asst. U. S. Atty., So. Dist. of New York, New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., and Gerald Walkin, Asst. U. S. Atty., So. Dist. of New York, New York City, on the brief), for appellee.

Edward Q. Carr, Jr., New York City (Anthony F. Marra, New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Before CLARK and SMITH, Circuit Judges, and DAWSON, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Arnold was convicted on a count of conspiracy to sell narcotics, growing out of a sale by Arnold and one Wylder of 171 grains of heroin to narcotics agent Mercado. His sole ground of appeal is the conduct of the government agents and employees leading up to the sale, which he contends amounted to entrapment as a matter of law and made the conviction a violation of his rights to due process under the Fifth Amendment. We find no merit to his claims. There...

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