Caminetti v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. .CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COUÜT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The cases are stated in the opinion. It was error to charge the jury that they might draw inferences against the defendant Diggs, from his failure to deny or explain incriminating acts in evidence. Constitution, Article V; Act of March 15, 1878, c. 37, 20 Stat. 30; Balliet v. United States, 129 Fed.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. .CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COUÜT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The cases are stated in the opinion. It was error to charge the jury that they might draw inferences against the defendant Diggs, from his failure to deny or explain incriminating acts in evidence. Constitution, Article V; Act of March 15, 1878, c. 37, 20 Stat. 30; Balliet v. United States, 129 Fed. Rep. 689, 696; Myrick v. United States and Cunningham v. United States, 219 Fed. Rep. 1; Boyd v. United States, 116 U. S. 616. In the United States- courts and in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
These three cases were argued together, and may be disposed of in a single opinion. In each of the Cases there was á conviction and sentence for violation of the so-called White Slave Traffic Act of June 25, 1910, 36 Stat. 825, the judgments were affirmed by the Circuit Courts of Appeals, and writs of certiorari bring the cases here.
In the Caminetti'báse,'the petitioner was indicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, upon the sixth day of May, 1913, for alleged violations of the act. The indictment was in four counts, the.first of which charged him…
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