Perry Franklin Guffey v. United States

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

In a two count indictment, the defendant, Guffey, was charged with violating the White-Slave Traffic Act,' 18 U.S.C.A. § 2421, on two different days. He was convicted on the second count only, and appeals from a five year sen tence. The second count alleged, in substance, that on the 18th day of March, 1962, Guffey unlawfully transported in interstate commerce two women from Wichita, Kansas, to Enid, Oklahoma, for the purpose of prostitution and debauchery.

The defendant attacks his conviction contending that there was an improper joinder of two separate offenses in the…