United States v. Alice Mills

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted on two counts of an indictment charging conspiracy and the substantive offense of transporting a girl in interstate commerce for purposes of prostitution, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2421. One co-defendant, Ted Jackson, plead guilty. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty as to the other co-defendant. Appellant was sentenced to imprisonment of five years on the first count and three years on the second count, the sentences to run consecutively.

The girl was a fourteen year old high school freshman, residing in Pennsylvania. She met Jackson, a…