Lang v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs in error were found guilty, December 8th, 1903, in the United States District Court, for the Northern District of Illinois, of violating section three of the act of March 3, 1875, c. 141, 18 Stat. 477 [U. S. Comp.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The plaintiffs in error were found guilty, December 8th, 1903, in the United States District Court, for the Northern District of Illinois, of violating section three of the act of March 3, 1875, c. 141, 18 Stat. 477 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1286], which reads as follows: “Sec. 3. That the importation into the United States of women for the purposes of prostitution is hereby forbidden and all contracts and agreements in relation thereto, made in advance or in pursuance of such…
1Opinion of the CourtGrosscup, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The act of March 3rd, 1875, c. 141, 18 Stat. 477 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1286], under which plaintiffs in error were indicted, was superseded by the act of March 3rd, 1903, the third section of which reads as follows:
“Sec. 3. That the importation into the United States of any woman or girl for the purposes of prostitution is hereby forbidden; and whoever shall import or attempt to import any woman or girl into the United States for the purposes of prostitution, or shall hold or attempt to hold, any woman or girl for such purposes in pursuance of such…
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