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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. No. 97.—Octoper Term, 1932. On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Ap- vs. Is for the Seventh The United States of America, | pea _ r the Sevent Cirenit. Jack Gebardi and Louise Rolfe Gebardi, Petitioners, {November 7, 1932. ] Mr. Justice Stone delivered the opinion of the Court. This case is here on certiorari, 286 U. 8. 5389, to review a judg- ment of conviction for conspiracy to violate the Mann Aet (36 18 U8. €., § 897 ef seg.). Petitioners, a man and a a Cesssels, a a woman, not then husband and wife, were indicted in the District Court for Northern Illinois, for conspiring together, and with others not named, to transport the woman from one state to another for the purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse with the man. At the tria] without a jury there was evidence from which the eourt eould have found that the petitioners had engaged in illicit sexual relations in the course of each of the journeys alleged; that the man purchased the railway tickets for both petitioners for at least one journey, and that in each instance the woman, in advance of the purchase of the tickets, consented to go on the journey and did go on it voluntarily for the specified immoral purpose. There was no evidence supporting the allegation that any other person had conspired. The trial court overruled motions for a finding for the defendants, and in arrest of judgment, and gave judg- ment of conviction, which the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed, 57 F. (2d) 617, on the authority of United States v. Holic, 236 U.S. 140, The only question which we need consider here is whether, within the principles announced in that case, the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction. There the defendants, a man and a woman, were indieted for conspiring together that the man ” Pe Bovey Cay Pa ke Sei mad Chew 2950S SG YE ¢)