GARZA-FUENTES v. UNITED STATES

No. 24887.

400 F.2d 219 (1968)

Armando GARZA-FUENTES and Tomas Elizalde-Guereca, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 18, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Thurmond, Del Rio, Tex., David Hume, Eagle Pass, Tex., for appellants.

Andrew L. Jefferson, Jr., Reece L. Harrison, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., San Antonio, Tex., for appellee.

Before THORNBERRY and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, District Judge.


SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment following jury verdict finding the appellants, Armando Garza-Fuentes and Tomas Elizalde-Guereca, guilty of unlawfully transporting and concealing heroin in violation of the Boggs Act, 21 U.S.C. § 174, and of unlawfully selling heroin which was not in the original stamped package in violation of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 4704(a). We affirm.

The convictions arose out of an alleged...

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