WHITING v. UNITED STATES

No. 6073.

321 F.2d 72 (1963)

James WHITING, Defendant, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided June 28, 1963.

Certiorari Denied October 21, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Choate, Boston, Mass., for appellant.

William J. Koen, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom W. Arthur Garrity, Jr., U. S. Atty., was on brief, for appellee.

Before WOODBURY, Chief Judge, and HARTIGAN and ALDRICH, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied October 21, 1963. See 84 S.Ct. 158.

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was indicted in six counts for illicit transactions in narcotics on May 3, June 28 and July 10, 1959. At the trial he admitted making transfers of narcotics on these dates to one Peterson, a government agent, but defended on the grounds that he acted only as Peterson's agent rather than as a principal, and that, in the alternative...

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