SHORES v. UNITED STATES

No. 13743.

174 F.2d 838 (1949)

SHORES v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

June 10, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. Edwards, Texarkana, Ark. (Ted Goldman, Texarkana, Ark., with him on the brief), for appellant.

Charles A. Beasley, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Fort Smith, Ark. (R. S. Wilson, United States Attorney, and David R. Boatright, Assistant United States Attorney, Fort Smith, Ark., with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury, on five counts, of knowingly having transported his wife in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution, and of thereby having violated section 2 of the White Slave Traffic Act, Mann Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 398, now § 2421.

The written statement which appellant gave the officers after he was taken into custody is a sordid narrative — the...

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