Rot v. Manchester Gas Co.

How later courts describe this case

• not unconstitutional to join rape and robbery charges where evidence of each offense would have been “technically admissible” at the trial of the other in order “[t]o give the finder of fact the complete picture of what transpired”
• violation of mail fraud statute and the Jenkins Act, 15 U.S.C. § 376 et seq., which requires the seller of cigarettes in interstate commerce to report the transaction to state tax officials; held, the Jenkins Act was not the exclusive statute under which to prosecute defendants