Serentino v. United States

BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

On February 2, 1929, Andrew S. Velez, Alesio Serentino, Angel Velez, Gordon B. Butler, and Hector Canzoni were indicted in the Federal District Court for Porto Rico in three counts. In the first count it was charged that the defendants, on or about the 28th day of December, 1928, “did, knowingly, willfully, and unlawfully, bring into the United States, to wit, at Aguadilla, Porto Rico, 5‘ C: ■ * from a foreign country, by means of a vessel, * the following named individuals, aliens [naming eleven persons] * * * who had not theretofore been duly admitted to the United…