Bennett v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR AND CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve .the constitutionality and construction of the White Slave Act and the validity of an indictment and conviction thereunder, are stated in the opinion. The only authority that Congress could have to enact the statute in question is the commerce clause in Art. I, par. 2 of § 8 of the Constitution of the United States.
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ERROR AND CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve .the constitutionality and construction of the White Slave Act and the validity of an indictment and conviction thereunder, are stated in the opinion. The only authority that Congress could have to enact the statute in question is the commerce clause in Art. I, par. 2 of § 8 of the Constitution of the United States. A careful analysis of the statute develops — First, that it is not a crime for a common carrier to carry a person from place to place for the purpose of prostitution, or for any…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Plaintiff in error and petitioner was indicted in the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for the violation of the act of June 25, 1910. She filed a motion to quash and a demurrer to the indictment, which were overruled, and upon a plea of not guilty she was tried, convicted, and sentenced to eleven months imprisonment in the county jail of Miami County, Ohio, and to pay the costs of the prosecution.
She made motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, which were overruled, and she then prosecuted error to the Circuit Court of Appeals, where the judgment against her was…
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