UNITED STATES v. MEHCIZ

No. 25868.

437 F.2d 145 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jesse Vance MEHCIZ, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 8, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Daigneault (argued), of Daigneault, Abel & Daigneault, Torrance, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

Morton Sitver (argued), Asst. U. S. Atty., Richard K. Burke, U. S. Atty., Phoenix, Ariz., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before ELY and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, District Judge.


EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

Mehciz was convicted after a jury trial for possession of 12,000 tablets of LSD for sale in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 331(q) (3) (A), 333(b) (1), and 360a (c) (1). We affirm.

I. THE FACTUAL BACKGROUND.

On September 29, 1969, Arthur Fluhr, Special Agent of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, received information from a reliable informant that a large shipment of LSD was being carried from southern...

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