Fisher 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. Criminal prosecution by the United States against George E. Fisher. Judgment of conviction, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in error,- hereinafter called defendant, was convicted of a violation of the White Slave Traffic Act (Comp. St. §§ 8812-8819). The indictment contains four counts. There was a verdict of guilty on the first two counts and of not guilty on the remaining counts. The trial court overruled a demurrer to the indictment, and this is assigned as error. As applied to the counts on which defendant was convicted, the objections to the indictment seem to us so wanting in merit as not to require discussion. The offense charged is set out substantially in the language of the…
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