United States v. Jim

The defendant is a Chinese laborer, arrested on suspicion of being a recent arrival in this country, and charged with being a person not lawfully entitled to enter or remain in the United States, upon which charge he was duly tried before Thomas Craney, United States commissioner at Coupeville, Island county, in this state, and convicted and sentenced to be deported to China, from which sentence he appealed to the judge of this court under the thirteenth section of the act of congress, approved September 13, 1888, entitled “An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the United…