Cook

This is a writ of error to review a judgment of conviction under the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act (Comp. St. §§ 6287g-G287q). The testimony on the part of the government tended to show that certain narcotic agents gave two marked $5 bills to an informer named AVoods, to be used by him in the purchase of narcotics from one Newby. AVoods approached Newby in a pool hall, and after a brief conversation between the two a bill was passed from AVoods to Newby. New-by then left the pool hall and .met the plaintiff in error on the street. Newby there passed a piece of paper money to the plaintiff in error, and the plaintiff in error passed a brown paper bindle to Newby. The plaintiff in error and Newby were thereupon arrested, and, after the arrest, one of the marked $5 bills was found on the person of the plaintiff in error, and the brown paper bindle containing narcotics was found on the person of Newby. One of the narcotic agents was called as a witness on the part of the government, and identified the $5 bill taken from the person of the plaintiff in error as one of the marked hills which had theretofore been given to the informer, AVoods. Counsel for the plaintiff in error, on…