Jackson Morgan v. United States

The defendant in this case, appellant here, was charged with offenses under six counts of an indictment. Two counts charged sale or concealment of narcotics under 21 U.S.C. § 174 ; two counts charged sale of narcotics without federal tax stamp under 26 U.S.C. § 4704 (a) and two counts charged sales of narcotics without the required order form, 26 U.S.C. § 4705 (a). Defendant was convicted on all six counts by jury verdict and he was sentenced to ten years on each count to be served concurrently.

At the trial the evidence was overwhelming that defendant sold narcotics at various times to one Gordon, a deputy sheriff of King County, Washington, who was acting at the time on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics as an undercover agent. Appellant specifies error in the action of the trial court in refusing to permit the defendant to cross-examine the purchaser of narcotics and another federal agent who observed the purchase about a man named Harvey Edwards.

The trial court very properly refused to permit this examination on the ground that there was no showing that the questions sought to be propounded were in any manner relevant to this case. There is no showing whatever that…