Legal Opinion
Herman Edward Nelms v. United States of America, (Two Cases)
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 1, 1961No. 8307_1PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.
The permissible unit of offense in prosecutions under the Mann Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2421, is the point at issue in this appeal.
Two violations of the Act were alleged against Herman Edward Nelms in an indictment handed up on May 4, 1959, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The first count of the indictment charged a transportation in interstate commerce of Lasula Roberts Nelms, the defendant’s wife, for the purpose of prostitution, on or about September 17,1958, from Bluefield, West Virginia, to Roanoke, Virginia. The second count…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Mortensen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
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3Cited by7 opinions
- United States v. James Delmore DeatonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- United States v. Wilshire Oil Company of TexasCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1970
- Wymer v. WymerUnited States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
- United States v. James ChittyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1985
- United States v. James Walter BennettCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1966
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