Bonness

This is a writ of error to review a judgment of conviction under the White Slave Traffic Act (Comp. St. §§ 8812-8819). The indictment charged that the two plaintiffs in error on July 3, 1925, transported two girls, in foreign commerce, from the city of Seattle, in the state of Washington, to the city of Vancouver, in the Dominion of Canada, as passengers in a Chevrolet touring automobile, for the purpose of prostitution, debauchery, concubinage, and other immoral purposes, to wit: That the plaintiff in error Bonness should and would engage in illicit sexual intercourse with one of the girls, and that the plaintiff in error Grimes should and would engage in illicit sexual intercourse with the other girl, in the city of Vancouver, in the Dominion of Canada.

The testimony shows that the plaintiffs in error and the two girls left Seattle on the evening of July 3, and drove to Bellingham, Wash., where they stopped for the night. There they registered at a hotel and occupied two rooms. On the following day they drove from Bellingham to Vancouver, British Columbia, where they again stopped for the night, occupying two rooms in the same hotel. At both hotels they all registered under…