United States v. Wilson
District Court, E.D. Tennessee
Criminal prosecution by the United States against C. R. Wilson. The defendant was indicted on the charge of violating the White Slave Traffic Act, tried, found guilty, and judgment of imprisonment rendered. No question was made, before or at the trial, hut that the transportation of the woman alleged and proved was an interstate transportation within the meaning of tine act.
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Criminal prosecution by the United States against C. R. Wilson. The defendant was indicted on the charge of violating the White Slave Traffic Act, tried, found guilty, and judgment of imprisonment rendered. No question was made, before or at the trial, hut that the transportation of the woman alleged and proved was an interstate transportation within the meaning of tine act. Shortly thereafter, this question having arisen in the mind of the court, a memorandum was handed down requesting counsel to submit briefs on the question whether, on account of insufficiency of the indictment in this…
1Opinion of the Court
SANFORD, District Judge.
I have carefully considered the briefs filed in response to the request contained in my memorandum of May 22, 1920. -
The indictment alleges that the woman in question was “transported in interstate commerce from Nashville, Tennessee, through the State of Tennessee and the State of Alabama by way of Stevenson, Alabama, and into Hamilton County, Tennessee, over the lines of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad Company.” In other words, it merely charges the transportation from one point in Tennessee to another point in Tennessee, as the points of origin and…
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