CHAMPION V. AMES
188 U.S. 321 (1903)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This is an appeal from the dismissal of a petition for a writ of
habeas corpus from Champion (D), after indictment for conspiracy to violate a lottery law.
FACTS: Champion (D) shipped a box of lottery tickets from Texas to California. He was
arrested for conspiracy to violate the Federal Lottery Act of 1895. The Act prohibited
importing, mailing, or transporting any lottery ticket from one state to another. D obtained
a writ of habeas corpus, challenging the constitutionality of the Act. D insists that the
carrying of lottery tickets from one state to another state by an express company engaged in
carrying freight and packages from state to state, although such tickets may be contained in
a box or package, does not constitute commerce among the states. The government insists that
express companies, when engaged, for hire, in the business of transportation from one state
to another, are instrumentalities of commerce among the states; that the carrying of lottery
tickets from one state to another is commerce which Congress may regulate, and that, as a
means of executing the power to regulate interstate commerce, Congress may make it an
offense against the United States to cause lottery tickets to be carried from one state to
another. His writ was denied, and D appealed.
ISSUE:
RULE OF LAW:
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LEGAL ANALYSIS:
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