Poindexter v. United States

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted upon two indictments predicated upon the same transactions and consolidated for trial, one charging violation of the Mann Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 398, and the other charging violation of the Federal Kidnapping Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 408a, to both of which he had plead not guilty.

The first indictment charged that on or about the 4th day of January, 1943, appellant transported in interstate commerce from the City of Fort Smith in the State of Arkansas to a point in the vicinity of Muldrow, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, one Mary Hanes, a female…