United States v. Palan

HOLT, District Judge.

This is a motion in arrest of judgment. Defendants have been indicted and convicted of a violation of section 3 of the immigration act of 1907 (Act Feb.-20, 1907, c. 1134, 34 Stat. 899 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1907, p. 392]). The material portion of that section is as follows:

“That the importation into the United States of any alien woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, is hereby forbidden; and whoever shall, directly or indirectly, import, or attempt to import, into the United States, any alien woman or girl for the purpose of…