United States v. Lee Yen Tai

This case is here upon a certified question of law arising in the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

The facts out' of which the question arose and the question itself are shown by the following statement sent up by that court;

“ On the 8th day of October, 1900, complaint was' made un der oath before a commissioner of the United States for the Northern District of New York, charging that Lee Gin Moy, alias Lee Yen Tai, on the sixth-day of October, A. D. 1900, ‘ did unlawfully 'come into the United States from China, he being then and there a Chinese person and laborer, and not…