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GOVERNMENT OF CANAL ZONE v. WRIGHT

No. 71-1861.

460 F.2d 1402 (1972)

The GOVERNMENT OF the CANAL ZONE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ivan Adolphus Jerome W. (Wright), Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 2, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger I. Dallam (Court appointed), Greenberg, Cohen & Dallam, Gretna, La., for defendant-appellant.

Lester Engler, U. S. Atty., Wallace D. Baldwin, Balboa, Canal Zone, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RIVES, COLEMAN and DYER, Circuit Judges.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

After trial to the Court without the intervention of a jury, Ivan Adolphus Jerome W. (Wright) [Jerome] was convicted of the illegal possession of narcotic drugs, 26 U.S.C., § 4724(c), and sentenced to imprisonment for seven years in the Canal Zone penitentiary. We affirm the judgment of the District Court.

According to the proof for the prosecution, the appellant, in possession of a quantity of cocaine, came in an automobile upon...

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