Bonness v. United States

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error to review a judgment of conviction under the White Slave Traffic Act (Comp. St. §§ 8812-8819). The indictment charged that the two plaintiffs in error on July 3, 1925, transported two girls, in foreign commerce, from the city of Seattle, in the state of Washington, to the city of Vancouver, in the Dominion of Canada, as passengers in a Chevrolet touring automobile, for the purpose of prostitution, debauchery, concubinage, and other immoral purposes, to wit: That the plaintiff in error Bonness should and would engage in illicit sexual intercourse…