Taylor v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon a writ of error to review a judgment of the Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, entered May 21, 190G, on a verdict of “guilty” found by a jury after trial upon an indictment for a misdemeanor, under section IS of the Immigration Act of 1903 which provides (Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012, 32 Stat. 1217 [U. S. Comp.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon a writ of error to review a judgment of the Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, entered May 21, 190G, on a verdict of “guilty” found by a jury after trial upon an indictment for a misdemeanor, under section IS of the Immigration Act of 1903 which provides (Act March 3, 1903, c. 1012, 32 Stat. 1217 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1905, p. 283]: “That it shall be the duty of the owners, officers, and agents of any vessel bringing an alien to the United States to adopt due…
1Dissent
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
I dissent from the judgment of the court. I think the statutory provision under which the defendant was indicted is not to be construed as embracing sailors who are bona fide members of a ship’s crew. It is true the section penalizes the landing of “any alien,” and the term, read without reference to the context, or the history of the legislation of which it is a part, or the well-known objects of this legislation, is broad enough to include a sailor. It is also broad enough to include the ambassador of a foreign government to our own, who comes here by vessel to enter…
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