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WRIGHT v. UNITED STATES

No. 13888.

175 F.2d 384 (1949)

WRIGHT et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 14, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Royall and M. Gabriel Nahas, Jr., Houston, Tex., for appellant Elmer Lee Wright.

Bert B. Larey, Texarkana, Ark., submitted brief for appellants.

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., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The appellants were charged, by an indictment (based on the Mann Act, 18 U.S. C.A. § 398, 36 Stat. 825, now § 2421, new Title 18 U.S.C.A.), with having on July 18, 1948, knowingly transported in interstate commerce from Houston, Texas, to Texarkana, Arkansas, a certain woman, for immoral purposes. The defendants (appellants) entered pleas of not guilty, and were tried, convicted and sentenced...

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