Shores v. United States

JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury, on five counts, of knowingly having transported his wife in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution, and of thereby having violated section 2 of the White Slave Traffic Act, Mann Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 398, now § 2421.

The written statement which appellant gave the officers after he was taken into custody is a sordid narrative — the revolting tale of a man 26 years old, previously a taxicab driver, marrying a girl, not yet 17 years of age, and using her immediately and continuously thereafter, for almost eight months, until his…