Denning v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas; Duval West, Judge. Elmer Denning was convicted of having feloniously persuaded and induced a woman to go from one place to another in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BATTS, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in error was convicted upon the charge of having feloniously persuaded and induced a woman to go from one place to another in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution. The woman was his wife. The wife was called as a witness, and her testimony, with other evidence in the case, was sufficient to sustain the verdict. If her testimony be rejected, the evidence is insufficient.
[1] The conviction was had in the Western district of Texas, and plaintiff in error suggests that the rules of evidence to be applied are articles 774 and 775 of the,Code of…
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