Virginia Lawrence Bland and Raymond Lee Wilson v. United States

SIMPSON, District Judge.

Appellants Virginia Lawrence Bland and Raymond Lee Wilson were convicted of bringing two aliens into the United States, knowing that those aliens were not duly admitted by an immigration officer and not entitled to enter or reside in the United States; in violation of Title 8 U.S.C.A. § 1324. 1

Appellants admitted that they flew to Cuba on June 24, 1959 for the purpose of bringing an anti-Castro Cuban, Hiram Gomez Rodriguez, back into the United States. Appellants were successful in picking up Hiram Gomez and his father Roman Gomez Miranda, who asked to come along when…