Tobias

This is a writ of error to review a judgment of conviction for violation of the White Slave Traffic Act (Comp. St. §§ 8812-8819). Tobias was convicted under three counts—(1) charging that he brought a certain named woman from Tulsa, Okl., to Portland, Or., for purposes of prostitution and debauchery; (2) that he procured and obtained, or caused to be procured and obtained, railroad tickets for transporting the same woman from Tulsa, Okl., to Portland, Or., for purposes of prostitution and debauchery; (3) that he persuaded, induced, and coerced the same woman to go from Tulsa, Okl., to Portland, Or., to engage in prostitution and debauchery and for- other immoral purposes.

The argument that the evidence does not sustain the verdict is devoid of merit. The testimony was that in April, 1923, Tobias and the woman, who was 24 years old and in his employ, left Kansas City, Mo., for Oregon; that he furnished the money for the tickets and expenses; that at Kansas City he registered the couple as man and wife; that while en route to Oregon illicit relations existed between them; that between Sacramento, Cal., and Portland, Or., they occupied a drawing room on the sleeping ear and that…