Legal Opinion
Crespo v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 29, 1945No. 4024PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PETERS, District Judge.
Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for Puerto Rico adjudging the appellant guilty of violation of the so-called White Slave Traffic Act, 36 Stat. 825, 18 U.S.C.A. § 398, by transporting women for purposes of prostitution from one place to another in Puerto Rico.
The indictment contains six counts, one for conspiracy and each of the other five for transporting for an immoral purpose a woman from Caguas to Aguadilla, in Puerto Rico, on December 24, 1943, there being five different women transported.
Acquitted on the first count for conspiracy, the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Caminetti v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- Downes v. BidwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. (PR), Ltd.Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Morgan v. DevineSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Ebeling v. MorganSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Americana of Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Samuel R. Kaplus and J. Kaplus & Sons, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1966
- United States v. Ronald F. FoxCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1970
- Oddo v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1949
- People v. LagomarsinoCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1950
- Benjamin F. Rayborn v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1956
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