UNITED STATES v. PADILLA

No. 339, Docket 27664.

374 F.2d 996 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Salvadore Escabi PADILLA, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided March 20, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phylis Skloot Bamberger, Bernard P. Becker and Anthony F. Marra, New York City, for defendant-appellant.

Michael W. Leisure, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty. for Southern Dist. of New York, Douglas S. Liebhafsky, Asst. U. S. Atty., of counsel), for appellee.

Before FRIENDLY, ANDERSON and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

Salvadore Escabi Padilla, shown by an abundance of evidence to have engaged in large-scale importation of narcotics from Mexico, complains he was convicted of the wrong crime in the wrong place. We hold the evidence warranted his conviction of the offense charged, in the district where he was tried.

The single count indictment in the District Court for the Southern District of New York charged Padilla with conspiracy with Jorge Asaf...

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