UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE,
v.
JOSEPH SAVAGE, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT
PER CURIAM.
Here the trial judge, sitting without a jury and acting on clear evidence that defendant had possession of heroin, used the statutory inference permitted from possession to find that the drug had been illegally imported into the United States and that the statute 21 U.S.C. § 174 had been violated. There have been too many cases sustaining this or a like inference as reasonable and rational for us now to hold it invalid. Yee Hem v. United States, 268 U.S. 178, 184, 45 S.Ct. 470, 69 L.Ed. 904; Casey v. United States, 276 U.S. 413, 418, 48 S.Ct. 373, 72 L.Ed. 632; United States v. Moe Liss, 2 Cir., 105 F. 2d 144, 146; Velasquez v. United States, 10 Cir., 244 F. 2d 416, 419; Cellino v. United States, 9 Cir., 276 F. 2d 941, 943-946; Walker v. United States, 5 Cir., 285 F. 2d 52, 58-60.
We are indebted to assigned counsel and to the New York Legal Aid Society for ably protecting the rights of the accused.
Conviction affirmed.
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- Yee Hem v. The United States, 268 U.S. 178 (U.S. 1925)
- Casey v. United States, 276 U.S. 413 (U.S. 1928)
- Cellino v. United States, 276 F.2d 941 (9th Cir. 1960)
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- Walker v. United States, 285 F.2d 52 (5th Cir. 1960)
- Marcelino Perea Velasquez v. United States, 244 F.2d 416 (10th Cir. 1957)