Kelly v. United States

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error to review a judgment of conviction under the White Slave Traffic Act (36 Stat. 825 [18 U.S.C.A. §§ 397-404]). The errors assigned have been summarized as follows: Error in the admission of testimony, insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict, error in the refusal to instruct as requested, misconduct of one of the jurors, and incompetency of the same juror.

We will first consider the objection to testimony, for, if the testimony complained of was competent and relevant, its sufficiency to support the verdict does not present a debatable…