Ingram

This is an appeal from a judgment upon conviction of appellant for having morphine in his possession in violation of Section 2c of the Jones-Miller Act, 42 Stat. 596 ( 21 U.S.C. § 174 , 21 U.S.C.A. § 174 ), and for conspiring in the violation with one Joseph A. Woods. Appellant seeks reversal for a claimed prejudicial cross-examination of his principal witness, his wife, Ann Ingram, tending to degrade her in matters having no relevant connection with the prosecution. The objections to the questions asked and exceptions to the court’s rulings sufficiently present for our consideration appellant’s contentions.

The morphine was found in an apartment of Woods in an apartment house in San Francisco; also in the apartment were some of appellant’s clothing and household linen and his suitcase containing a scale, usable for measuring narcotics, empty capsules, and a radio claimed to be his. The presence of these articles in Woods’ rooms and the fact that appellant had a key to the apartment which he used to enter shortly after the federal agents, who were waiting there, had discovered the drug, constituted an important part of the evidence leading to his conviction.

Appellant’s defense…