Yates v. United States

MATHEWS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, John Edward Yates, was indicted under §§ 272 and 276 of the Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 451, 455.1 The indictment charged that appellant, on or about *581February 4, 1944, “in and on board a certain American vessel known as and called the ‘President Johnson,’ belonging in whole or in part to the American President Lines, Inc., a corporation created by and under the laws of the State of Delaware, on waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State of the United States, to-wit, at…