BUSH v. UNITED STATES

No. 15693.

267 F.2d 483 (1959)

Thomas Curtis BUSH, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

June 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Curtis Bush, Texarkana, Tex., in pro. per. also brief by court appointed counsel Arthur Warner, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., T. Conrad Judd, Robert John Jensen, Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before CHAMBERS, BARNES and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges.


BARNES, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2421, which prohibits knowingly transporting a woman in interstate commerce for prostitution or any other immoral purpose. A new trial was denied appellant, and he was sentenced to three and one-half years imprisonment.

Transportation of the seventeen year old complaining witness in an auto owned by defendant from Texas to California was freely admitted by defendant. The...

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