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POLLOCK v. WILLIAMS

No. 345.

322 U.S. 4 (1944)

POLLOCK v. WILLIAMS, SHERIFF.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 10, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Raymer F. Maguire, with whom Messrs. W.H. Poe and Thomas T. Purdom were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. John C. Wynn, Assistant Attorney General of Florida, with whom Messrs. J. Tom Watson, Attorney General, and Woodrow M. Melvin, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant Pollock questions the validity of a statute of the State of Florida making it a misdemeanor to induce advances with intent to defraud by a promise to perform labor and further making failure to perform labor for which money has been obtained prima facie evidence of intent to defraud.1 It conflicts, he says, with the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution...

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