Lester Julian Thompson and Estelle Shell Goben Thompson (Mrs. Lester Julian Thompson) v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
RIVES, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, husband and wife, were convicted of conspiracy, 18 U.S.C.A. § 371, to violate the White Slave Traffic Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2421. The indictment charged that the defendants conspired and agreed with each other “and divers other persons to the grand juror unknown” to commit the offense of unlawfully transporting in interstate commerce from Shawmut, Alabama, to Thom-aston, Georgia, and from Macon, Georgia, to Jacksonville, Florida, a woman named Hattie Johnson for the purpose of prostitution and debauchery and for other immoral purposes.
Appellánts’ first contention…
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