SHANE v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 16759, 16695.

283 F.2d 355 (1960)

Joanne SHANE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. Sally Ann HITSON, Shirley Joyce McGowan and Betty Lou Hammett, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 31, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. H. Lally, Sacramento, Cal., for appellants Shane and McGowan.

Wm. H. Lally and Robert A. Zarick, Sacramento, Cal., for appellant Hammett.

Milton L. Baldwin, Harry J. Englebright, Sacramento, Cal., for appellants Hitson et al.

Laurence E. Dayton, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., Robert E. Woodward, Asst. U. S. Atty., Sacramento, Cal., for appellee.

Before CHAMBERS, BONE and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges.


CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

Shane, Hitson, McGowan and Hammett are recalcitrant witnesses before the grand jury in Sacramento in the Northern Division of the Northern District of California. Interstate transportation of women for commercial purposes is there under investigation. Apparently the activities of men preying upon women (financially) was the subject of a probe to make a case or cases under the Mann Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2421. Obviously the four appellants are...

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