Legal Opinion
Daigle v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 5, 1950No. 4464PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing the appellant to a term of imprisonment after he had been found guilty by a jury of knowingly transporting and causing to be transported a girl from Manchester, New Hampshire, to Boston, Massachusetts, for an immoral purpose in violation of § 2 of the White Slave Traffic Act, 36 Stat. 825, 18 U.S.C.A. § 398, now 18 U.S.C.A. § 2421. The principal contention on this appeal is that the evidence is not sufficient to support the conviction.
The testimony is conflicting, but from it the jury could well find that the defendant first…
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