John Lawrence Redmon v. United States

Appellant was charged in a one count indictment of the offense of knowingly and unlawfully receiving, concealing, and facilitating the concealment and transportation of 6.05 grams of heroin knowing the same had previously been imported into the United States contrary to the provisions of 21 U.S.C. § 173 . Following trial to the court, sitting without a jury, appellant was convicted of the offense charged and sentenced to the custody of the Attorney General for a term of five years — the sentence to run concurrently with the sentence appellant was serving, imposed by the Superior Court of the State of California, following conviction of a state narcotic offense.

The facts may be summarized as follows:

On June 15,1964, in the late afternoon, while still daylight, three agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Kiere, Borquez and Celaya, travelling in two cars, Kiere and Borquez in the lead car and Celaya in the following car, travel-ling north on Downey Road, East Los Angeles, approaching the intersection of Downey Road and Telegraph Road, saw appellant standing on the southeast corner of the intersection conversing with a male person identified as De Leon. As appellant and his…