CAMINETTI v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 139, 163, 464.

242 U.S. 470 (1917)

CAMINETTI v. UNITED STATES. DIGGS v. UNITED STATES. HAYS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 15, 1917.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph W. Bailey, with whom Mr. Marshall B. Woodworth and Mr. Robert T. Devlin were on the brief, for petitioner in No. 163.

Mr. Harry O. Glasser for petitioner in No. 464.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Wallace for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

These three cases were argued together, and may be disposed of in a single opinion. In each of the cases there was a conviction and sentence for violation of the so-called White Slave Traffic Act of June 25, 1910, 36 Stat. 825, the judgments were affirmed by the Circuit Courts of Appeals, and writs of certiorari bring the cases here.

In the Caminetti case, the petitioner...

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