Purciller v. United States

VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the Southwestern Division of the Western District of Missouri for a violation of the White Slave Traffic Act (18 USCA §§ 397-404). The indictment contains a single count. The errors urged in the brief filed are two.

First. The court committed error in refusing to direct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. This specification is not properly presented for review, because the demurrer interposed at the close of the government’s case was thereafter abandoned by the introduction of testimony on the part of…