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LOPEZ v. UNITED STATES

No. 23263.

370 F.2d 8 (1966)

Melchor Tafoya LOPEZ, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 6, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Perrenot, El Paso, Tex., for appellant.

Harry Lee Hudspeth, Asst. U. S. Atty., El Paso, Tex., Ernest Morgan, U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for appellee.

Before JONES and DYER, Circuit Judges, and SPEARS, District Judge.

SPEARS, District Judge:

On December 6, 1965, appellant was convicted on four counts of an indictment, the first two of which charged him with the importation and concealment of heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. Section 174, and the last two with having departed and entered the United States without registering as a narcotics user and addict in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 1407. He was sentenced to ten years on each of the first two counts, and three years on each...

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