Blanc v. United States
| Decision Date | 07 July 1919 |
| Docket Number | 3292. |
| Parties | BLANC v. UNITED STATES. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit |
Frank J. Hennessy, of San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff in error.
Annette Abbott Adams, U.S. Atty., and James E. Colston, Asst. U.S Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal.
Before GILBERT, ROSS, and HUNT, Circuit Judges.
Blanc was tried and convicted upon two informations, which were consolidated for the purpose of trial. One information charged that during September, 1918, in violation of section 13 of the act of May 18, 1917 , entitled 'An act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States,' and the act of October 6, 1917 (40 Stat. 393, c. 92 (Comp. St. 1918, Sec 2813e)), entitled 'An act to promote the efficiency of the United States Navy,' approved the 6th of October 1917, and the order of the Secretary of the Navy issued on August 3, 1918, Blanc unlawfully directed one ******* to room 16 in a building on Broadway street in San Francisco for purposes of lewdness and prostitution, and that the said building was being used for purposes of lewdness and prostitution, and was within 10 miles of a place under naval jurisdiction, to wit, Goat Island. The other charged that Blanc, in September, 1918, in violation of the statutes mentioned in the preceding information and the above referred to order of the Secretary of the Navy, willfully and knowingly kept a house of ill fame at 773 Broadway street, in San Francisco, known as the Globe Hotel, where prostitution was carried on, and that said hotel was within 10 miles of Goat Island, a place under naval jurisdiction.
It is argued that the proof was insufficient to show that defendant kept a house of ill fame. The point is not well taken, for there was evidence tending to show that prostitution was habitually carried on in the room of the hotel kept by defendant and that defendant well knew of the fact.
It is contended that there is nothing to sustain the charge that defendant knowingly directed ******* to the particular room described in the house referred to. But as the evidence of the government was that ******* asked defendant about a girl, and that Blanc told him to go to a particular room, and that he would find a woman there, and that he did meet her there, and that she offered herself in prostitution, the court was right in submitting the evidence to the jury.
It is said that the act of Congress of May 18, 1917, and the act of Congress of October 6, 1917, and the order of the Secretary of the Navy of August 3, 1918, are contrary to the provisions of section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution of the United States, in that they constitute an unlawful attempt by the United States government to exercise police powers within the state. The position is not well taken. Pappens v. United States, 252 F. 55, 164 C.C.A. 167; Grancourt v. United States, 258 F. 25, . . . C.C.A. . . . .
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