Biggerstaff v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska; Joseph W. Woodrough, Judge. Henry Howard Biggerstaff was convicted of violating the White Slave Act, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
Biggerstaff was convicted and sentenced for violating the White Slave Traffic Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 825, c. 395 [Comp. St. §§ 8812-8819]). The offense was charged to have been committed in the Chadron division of the district of Nebraska. The indictment was found and returned in the Omaha division by a grand jury drawn from the district at large, and thence transferred to the Chadron division for trial.
[ 1 ] A demurrer to the indictment, which was overruled, specified as a ground that the finding and return of the indictment in the Omaha division was contrary to…
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