Wing v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida; William B. Sheppard, Judge. Chester Wing and others were convicted of conspiracy to bring into the United States certain Chinamen, in violation of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
BRYAN, Circuit Judge.
Chester Wing and several other defendants were convicted upon an indictment, under section 37 of the Criminal Code (Comp. St. § 10201), charging a conspiracy to bring into- and to land in the United States certain Chinamen not lawfully entitled to enter, in violation of the Chinese Exclusion Act (Comp. St. § 4290 et seq.). The overt act alleged was the navigation of a vessel called the Viola within the waters of the Northern district of Florida. A demurrer, for failure of the indictment to allege that the Chinamen intended to be landed in the United States did not belong…
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