United States v. Charles Stagman v. Elmer Lawrence Wiethorn

These are cases where hard facts are likely to make bad law. Defendants appeal, after having been tried for conspiring 1 to violate the Travel Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1952 (Supp. V 1969). A number of appellants were also indicted on counts alleging specific violations of the Travel Act. They were all found guilty by juries in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and each appellant has been sentenced to a year and a day in the federal penitentiary. Defendant George Girelach’s sen*495tence was suspended in favor of probation.

What defendants-appellants actually did was not…