...prosecution under this * * * section proof that ginseng purchased had been illegally obtained by the vendor shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section * * * by the purchaser. (96.14) (5) PENALTY. * * * Any person who * * * violates this section * * * shall * * *...

...unlawful for any person to purchase, sell, dispense, or distribute any of the aforesaid drugs except in the original stamped package or from the original...containing any of the aforesaid drugs by any person who ha3 not registered and paid special taxes as required by this section shall be prima facie evidence...

...unlawful for any person to purchase, sell, dispense or distribute any of the aforesaid drugs except in the original stamped package or from the original stamped package * * • " — and that he construed "the word 'persons' in the foregoing language to mean the persons enumerated in the...

...unlawful for any person to purchase, sell, dispense or distribute any of the aforesaid drugs except he just and ultimate purpose of the law. In substance and effect, the decis that he construed "the word 'person' in the foregoing language to mean the persons enumerated in the...

...unlawful for any person to purchase, sell, dispense, or distribute any of the aforesaid drugs except in the original stamped package or from the original...the person in whose possession same may be found." We do not see how this phrase, "guilty of a violation of this section," can be so construed as to support...

...It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase . . . any of the aforesaid drugs [opiates] except in the original stamped package . . . and the absence...the person in whose possession same may be found." (40 STAT. 1130, 1131, 1919 US COMP. STAT. SUPP., § 6287 g.) Solely upon evidence of possession and...

...twelfth paragraph of section 1 be amended to read as follows: "and the absence of appropriate tax -paid stamps from any of the aforesaid drugs shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section in the judicial district where such drugs are found, by the person in whose possession the same may...

...unlawful for any person to purchase, sell, dispense, or distribute any of the aforesaid drugs except in the original stamped package or from the original...stamped package; and the absence of appropriate tax-paid stamp« from any of the aforesaid drugs shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section...

...That presumption arising from possession is one of law, error. Crampton v. US, 16 F. (2d) 231, CCA 8. or from the original stamped package; and the absence of appropriate tax-paid tamps from any of the aforesaid drugs shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section...

...in or from the original stamped package, and the absence of the required stamps from any of the said drugs ' shall be prima facie evidence of a violation...the person in whose possession same may be found.' For the petitioner it was argued that the presumption thus created does not and, consistently with...