Legal Opinion
United States v. Burch
District Court, N.D. California
Decided October 9, 1915No. Nos. 5780, 5781PublishedCited by 4 opinions
William Burch and Charles Rider were each indicted for a violation of the White Slave Act.
1Opinion of the Court
DOOLING, District Judge.
The indictment here is in two counts. The first charges that the defendant knowingly transported in interstate commerce by means of two automobiles running over the public highways of the United States from Wheeling, in the state of West Virginia, to San Francisco, in the state of California, a certain woman for an unlawful purpose, to wit, that she should live and cohabit with him as his mistress and concubine. The second count alleges transportation by the defendant by the same means and between the same points of the same woman, with the intent in the defendant that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gibbons v. OgdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
3Cited by4 opinions
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- Hart v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1926
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