AMAYA v. UNITED STATES

No. 9119.

373 F.2d 197 (1967)

Hector Saldivar AMAYA, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

February 13, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juan G. Burciaga, Albuquerque, N. M., for appellant.

John Quinn, Albuquerque, N. M. (John A. Babington, Albuquerque, N. M., with him on brief), for appellee.

Before MURRAH, Chief Judge, and HILL and SETH, Circuit Judges.


MURRAH, Chief Judge.

On this appeal from conviction and sentence for violation of the narcotic laws, 21 U.S.C. § 174, 26 U.S.C. § 4705(a), appellant complains of the insufficiency of the government's evidence based in part on the testimony of a paid government informer.

The government's case follows the familiar pattern of cases of this kind in which enforcement agents search the informer's car and person and provide him with funds with which to...

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