Thomas Charles Stevens v. United States

BARNES, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was indicted on a single count for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (White Slave Traffic Act). 1 The alleged victim was appellant’s nineteen year old wife. 2 A trial by jury resulted in appellant’s conviction. Motion for a new trial was denied, and this timely appeal follows.

Appellant urges on this appeal as grounds for reversal: (1) The insufficiency of the evidence; (2) error of the trial court in declaring the wife to be a hostile witness; (3) error of the trial court in admitting, over objections of remoteness, testimony that Mrs. Stevens worked as a…