Burch
United States v. Burch
Opinion
lead Opinion
Dooling, J.
The indictment here is in two counts. The first charges that the defendant knowingly transported in interstate commerce by means of two automobiles running over the public highways of the United States from Wheeling, in the state of West Virginia, to San Francisco, in the state of California, a certain woman for an unlawful purpose, to wit, that she should live and cohabit with him as his mistress and concubine. The second count alleges transportation by the defendant by the same means and between the same points of the same woman, with the intent in the defendant that the said woman *975 should engage in the practice of prostitution and give herself up to debauchery. It is not averred in either count that the automobiles were common carriers, and the ownership of such automobiles is alleged to he to the grand jury unknown. One of the automobiles is averred to have been used in transporting the woman from Wheeling to Ft. Bridger, in the state of Wyoming, and the other to have been used for such transportation from Ft. Bridger to San Francisco. It is further averred that the automobiles were run and operated by defendant and one Charles Rider. A demurrer' challenges the sufficiency…