Robert Twitchell, Jayne Ackerman Rogers v. United States

In this criminal case, the appeals are by Robert Twitehell, Margaret Elinor Conklin, Jayne Ackerman Rogers (Mrs. Rogers), and Harrison Rogers (Mr. Rogers) . They were tried under a nine count indictment, in which Max Kosher and Dale Ratcliff were also named as defendants. Kosher and Ratcliff were not tried.

Count I charged all of the named defendants, together with Gloria Ashen, Gustave Meyers, Calvin Kellar, Norman Winslow, Vivian Hendricks, and others unknown, with a conspiracy ( 18 U.S.C. § 871 ) to violate sections 2421, and 2422 (the Mann Act) as principals (see section 2(a) and (b)) of Title 18. The gist of the charge is a conspiracy to violate the Mann Act by: a. transporting or causing to be transported a woman or women in interstate commerce for immoral purposes (§ 2421, first paragraph, and § 2(b)), b. procuring and obtaining and causing to be procured and obtained a ticket or tickets to be used by a woman or women in interstate commerce for immoral purposes (§ 2421, second paragraph, and § 2(b)), and c. persuading, etc., a woman or women to travel in interstate commerce and causing her or them to use a common carrier for immoral purposes (§ 2422). All four of the…