Parker v. United States

On a prosecution under the Mann Act (Comp. St. §§ 8812-8819), it appeared without dispute that the prosecuting witness, a girl of 17, had been having sexual relations with a young man who introduced her to the defendant, a youth of 20, though married; that shortly after their first meeting she and defendant began and continued illicit sexual relations for about two months; that both then went from Tennessee into Illinois, where they lived together for several weeks and represented themselves to be man and wife. Both were witnesses at the trial. The only matter up to this point in dispute…