Albert Arciniaga v. United States

409 F.2d 513

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: August 22, 1969
• Docket: 22873_1
• Status: Published

Opinion

PER CURIAM:

The judgment of conviction is affirmed.

This was a border crossing case with a rubber contraption containing narcotics which defendant had swallowed, lodging in the stomach. The package was retrieved by causing an emetic to be given to Arciniaga.

We have had a number of alimentary canal cases involving narcotics. Some of them are:

Blackford v. United States, 9 Cir., 247 F.2d 745, cert. denied 356 U.S. 914, 78 S.Ct. 672, 2 L.Ed.2d 586.

Blefare v. United States, 9 Cir., 362 F.2d 870.

Rivas v. United States, 9 Cir., 368 F.2d 703.

Henderson v. United States, 9 Cir., 390 F.2d 805.

Huguez v. United States, 9 Cir., 406 F.2d 366, decided Sept. 30, 1968.

We find this one closest to Rivas.

Other points asserted we find without merit.