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UNITED STATES v. GASKIN

No. 68.

320 U.S. 527 (1944)

UNITED STATES v. GASKIN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W. Marvin Smith, with whom Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Berge, Messrs. Oscar A. Provost and George Earl Hoffman, and Miss Beatrice Rosenberg were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Marion B. Knight, with whom Messrs. A.L. Brogden and Harley Langdale were on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

An indictment was returned against the appellee in the District Court for Northern Florida which charged that he arrested one Johnson "to a condition of peonage," upon a claim that Johnson was indebted to him, and with intent to cause Johnson to perform labor in satisfaction of the debt, and that he forcibly arrested and detained Johnson against his will and transported him from one place to another within Florida...

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