Cunningham v. Skiriotes

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

Lambiris Skiriotes, arrested by the Sheriff of Pinellas County, Florida, under a warrant regularly issued by the County Judge of that County for violation of a State law against using diving apparatus in gathering sponges, was released on a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court of the United States, and the Sheriff has appealed. It appears from the warrant itself, and also from the Sheriff’s return to the writ, that Skiriotes has done his diving at a point off the coast of Pine'llas County about two marine leagues from the nearest land and from the line of mean low…