United States v. John Melvin Lomas

KNOCH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant, John Melvin Lo-mas, appeals his conviction in a jury trial on a charge of interstate transport of a woman for immoral purposes in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 2421. He was sentenced to serve five years.

Defendant presents five issues for review:

“(1) Whether the Court erred in failing to declare a mistrial upon motion duly made, after a government witness testified to a conversation with defendant-appellant wherein said defendant-appellant allegedly had told of his commission of a crime in the past similar in nature to that for which he was…