THOMPSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 15489.

227 F.2d 671 (1955)

Lester Julian THOMPSON and Estelle Shell Goben Thompson (Mrs. Lester Julian Thompson), Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 18, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Reese Watkins, Macon, Ga., for appellants.

Floyd M. Buford, Robert B. Thompson, Asst. U. S. Attys., Frank O. Evans, U. S. Atty., Macon, Ga., for appellee.

Before RIVES, TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, husband and wife, were convicted of conspiracy, 18 U.S.C.A. § 371, to violate the White Slave Traffic Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 2421. The indictment charged that the defendants conspired and agreed with each other "and divers other persons to the grand juror unknown" to commit the offense of unlawfully transporting in interstate commerce from Shawmut, Alabama, to Thomaston, Georgia, and from Macon, Georgia, to Jacksonville, Florida...

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