United States v. American President Lines, Ltd.

BYERS, District Judge.

This is a motion — presumably under Rule 12, Fed.Rules Civ.Proc. 28 U.S.C.A. — to dismiss an information which charges a violation of the Statute covering the unauthorized landing of aliens, Title 8 U.S. C.A. § 146(a), in the case of a stowaway who escaped from the S.S. Edward P. Ripley on June 15, 1946.

The information was filed nearly 20 months later, on February 5, 1948, and this motion was heard on January 15, 1951, or about 4½ years after the occurrence.

Those who complain of the .law’s delay are not without supporting data.

The defendant was either an agent or a…