Court Opinion

ID: 9636572
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 14:33:32.486939+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:15:41.987089
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WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I think the charge of the indictment that the appellants transported the named woman in interstate commerce from Houston, Texas, to Texarkana, Arkansas, was not proven. They transported her from Houston, Texas, to Texarkana, Texas, in an automobile and there unloaded her and terminated their transporting. She went from there to Arkansas by herself pursuant to the inducement, enticement and persuasion of appellants but she was not transported by them. I think Mellor v. United States, 8 Cir., 160 F.2d 757, must be distinguished. In that case there was transportation of the named women in two states and it was held (I think rightly) that the transportation was a unitary interstate transportation and that the trick of letting the women get out of the car to walk across the state line did not divest the transportation of its continuity or of its interstate character. But here there was transportation in only one’state and I think the vicious conduct proven against appellants was of state and not federal cognizance.