[DOWNLOAD] "Pine v. United States." by United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Pine v. United States.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 26, 1943
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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Charged with having conspired with named and unnamed persons to violate the Mann Act, that is to say, with having conspired to transport women and girls in interstate commerce to work in the LaPaloma Club in Miame under depraved and debauched surroundings and conditions which would induce and lead them to a course and life of sexual immorality, appellant was found guilty as charged and sentenced to be fined and imprisoned. Conceding that the indictment charges an offense under Athanasaw v. United States, 227 U.S. 326, 33 S. Ct. 285, 57 L. Ed. 528, Ann. Cas. 1913E, 911, and not seriously contesting that the LaPaloma Club was operated under surroundings and conditions, and that women were unlawfully transported for work in it, as charged, appellant here insists: that there is no evidence whatever that he was a party to, or even so much as knew of the existence of, the conspiracy charged; that his motion for a directed verdict should have been granted; and that for the failure to grant it, the judgment must be reversed. In addition, he urges upon us that there was prejudicial error in the conduct of the trial (1) in that the court did not prevent, and not preventing failed to protect defendant from the consequences of, misconduct of the goernments attorneys, and (2) in that the court refused to give in charge to the jury defendants requested charges Nos. 6, 10, 24 and 29.