Hamel v. United States

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was convicted in a trial to a jury upon an iiidictment charging him with violation of § 4 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, 8 U.S.C.A. § 138. That section, in terms similar to the so-called White Slave Law, Act of June 25, 1910, 18 U.S.C.A. § 397 et seq., forbids the transportation of an alien woman into the United States for prostitution or for any other immoral purpose. While no element of commercial vice attended the transaction, the appellant, upon conviction, was sentenced to a term of six years in a penitentiary and fined the sum of $3000.

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