Hoke v. United States, 227 U.S. 308 (1913) (Nos. 381,588, 603,602)

Case name: Hoke v. United States Opinion filed: 1913-02-24 Docket No.: 381,588, 603,602 Citations: • 227 U.S. 308 • 33 S. Ct. 281 • 57 L. Ed. 523 • 1913 U.S. LEXIS 2301 Case holding summaries: • upholding as constitutional similar statutory language in the Mann Act • inducing a woman to travel in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution • rejecting Commerce Clause challenge to the Mann Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2421, which outlaws the interstate transportation of persons for purposes of prostitution • holding that it is interstate commerce to transport a woman from one state to another in a common carrier • Congress may keep channels of commerce free of transportation for prostitution • “Commerce among the states, we have said, consists of intercourse and traffic between their citizens, and includes the transportation of persons and property.” • upholding the Mann Act, which criminalizes the knowing transportation of an individual in interstate commerce with the intent that such individual engage in prostitution • similar language in the Mann Act constitutional