Emmanuel v. United States
Decision Date | 28 March 1928 |
Docket Number | No. 5111.,5111. |
Citation | 24 F.2d 905 |
Parties | EMMANUEL v. UNITED STATES. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit |
Howard P. Macfarlane, of Tampa, Fla. (Macfarlane, Pettingill, Macfarlane & Fowler, of Tampa, Fla., on the brief), for plaintiff in error.
Wm. M. Gober, U. S. Atty., of Tampa, Fla., and Francis L. Poor, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Jacksonville, Fla.
Before WALKER, BRYAN, and FOSTER, Circuit Judges.
The indictment against plaintiff in error, George M. Emmanuel, and others contained four counts, three of which charged some of the accused with, at a stated time and place, unlawfully, etc., bringing into and landing in the United States from a named foreign country by means of a certain vessel, to wit, the schooner Ariel, a named alien, who had not been duly admitted to the United States and was not then lawfully entitled to enter and reside within the United States under the terms and provisions of the Act of Congress of February 5, 1917, as amended (Comp. St. § 4289¼a et seq.), and charged Emmanuel and Harrison Smith with unlawfully, etc., aiding, abetting, and assisting in bringing into and landing said alien in the United States from a named foreign country, and the fourth count charged the accused with conspiracy to commit the offenses charged in the other counts. At the conclusion of the evidence the district attorney announced that the government abandoned the fourth count, the one charging conspiracy. Emmanuel was convicted under the first and second counts, the charges of which, respectively, were as to the bringing into and landing in the United States of Jacob Can and Alexander Trancygrea. Emmanuel complains of rulings on evidence, of the court's refusal to direct a verdict in his favor, and of the court's refusal to give the following charges requested in his behalf:
After one Verkman, an alien who was not entitled to admission into the United States, had as a witness for the...
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