Wygant
Wygant v. United States
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Hunt, J.
The indictment charged that Wygant, with certain other persons, did, on May 17, 1924, at Portland, Or., knowingly, willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously manufacture, prpduee, compound, sell, deal in, dispense, distribute, administer, and give away a certain compound, salt, derivative, and preparation of opium, to wit, a quantity of morphine, without having registered and paid the special tax, as required by act of Congress.
Error is assigned upon the ground that the indictment charges several crimes, without indicating the particular one with which defendant is charged; that it does not state the name of the person to whom an alleged sale was made; that there was no evidence of a sale or of' defendant dealing in morphine. On the authority of Stubbs v. United States (C. C. A.) 1 F.(2d) 837 , the indictment is sufficient.
The evidence of the government was that Wygant, with others, had broken into a certain drug store and obtained a quantity of compounds containing morphine; that afterwards Wygant told Rosebrook, a co-defendant, that he had some narcotics he wanted to get rid of, and asked Rosebrook to aid him in selling them; that later Wygant delivered the narcotics to…