Ammerman v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska; Thomas C. Munger, Judge. Criminal prosecution by the United States against Day Ammerman. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, Circuit Judge.
Error from conviction on one count of an indictment charging transportation of a woman in interstate commerce, for immoral purposes. The errors here urged are: (1) Insufficiency of the indictment. (2) Insufficiency of the evidence. (3) Admission of prior illicit relations between the parties. (4) Erroneous charge. (5) Coercion of the jury.
[1] The attack upon the indictment is based on the claim that it is lacking in any sufficient allegation of the necessary criminal intent. The statute (White Slave Traffic Act, § 2 [Comp. St. § 8813]) condemns such transportation when…
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