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- Title: United States v. Smith
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals Second Circuit
- Release Date : January 10, 1960
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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This appeal is from a judgment convicting the defendant, Smith, of selling a parcel of heroin on April 28, 1959. The evidence for the prosecution was in substance as follows. On April 23, 1959, Avant, an agent of the Bureau of Narcotics, entered the "Dunbar Bar" in New York in company with one, Mack, who is described as a "special employee of the bureau." While there, Smith entered and had a talk with Mack out of the hearing of Avant. After Macks return he told Avant that Smith had told him that he would sell narcotics to Avant but only through Mack as an intermediary, and that Mack had answered that Smith should remember Avant, because they had served in the same regiment during the last war, although Smith did not recall having met him. Nothing else happened on that day but on the 24th Mack introduced Avant to Smith and told him that Avant was a narcotics dealer from Boston. Smith was then accompanied by one, Moore, and the four men, Mack, Avant, Moore and Smith, all entered Smiths motor car where they talked of a purchase of narcotics by Avant from Smith. Smith and Moore questioned Avant about Avants narcotics activity, and asked him whether he was not a law enforcement officer ("the man"). Apparently satisfied that he was not, Smith agreed to sell Avant one-half an ounce of heroin for $250.00, and told him and Mack to wait at the "Dunbar Bar" for a telephone call. Two or three hours later Avant and Mack went to several places which Smith had suggested, but the heroin was not at any of them. The next morning Avant and Mack went to Smiths house where Avant complained of his treatment and Smith excused himself on the ground that he and Moore wanted to be sure that they were not dealing with a "policeman." He said that they were now satisfied that he was not a "policeman," and that he would deliver the heroin by Sunday, the 26th. They talked of the price again and agreed that Avant should pay $225.00 instead of $250.00 for the half ounce. On Monday, the 27th, Smith told Avant that he had not been able to get the heroin; but on Tuesday, the 28th, Avant went to Smiths house where he met Smith who asked him to wait. A little later in accordance with a telephone instruction from Smith, Avant went to another bar where shortly after his arrival Smith came and again asked Avant if he was not "the man" - meaning once more, a "policeman." Avant assured him that he was not, and Smith then gave him a brown package which contained heroin for which Avant paid him $225.00. Two other narcotics agents confirmed some of the details of Avants testimony, though not the actual delivery.