Legal Opinion
Reed v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 10, 1944No. 10931PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Per curiam
On conviction upon an indictment which in three counts charged him with transporting in interstate commerce on three separate occasions the same girl, from and to the same points, for the purpose of engaging her in prostitution, the appellant was sentenced generally to ten years imprisonment. A motion to set the sentence aside as exceeding the limit of five years for the offense was denied, and this appeal taken. The prostitution was at a soldiers’ training camp.
Each trip was a separate offense, and could be separately punished. Three maximum sentences would have aggregated fifteen years. A…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- McKee v. JohnstonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1939
- Myers v. MorganCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1915
- Blake v. MoyerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1913
- Ross v. HudspethCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1939
- Flynn v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1932
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3Cited by11 opinions
- John Benson, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1964
- United States v. F/n/u Pate, A/K/A "Tush Hog", and Jerry Edward PateCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
- United States v. LynchCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1947
- Herman Edward Nelms v. United States of America, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1961
- James H. Granger v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
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