Welsch v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Wheeling; Alston G. Dayton, Judge. W. A. Welsch was convicted of an offense, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error (defendant below and herein so called) was indicted in October, 1913, for a violation of the White Slave Traffic Act. The indictment contains three counts, charging the defendant (1) with unlawfully transporting in interstate commerce, for the purposes named in the statute, and aiding in such transportation, a woman under the age of 18 years; (2) with unlawfully procuring, and aiding in procuring, a railroad ticket to be used for the transportation described in the first count; and (3) with unlawfully persuading and enticing the woman in question to…
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