United States v. Bain

An information is lodged charging the defendant, a seaman lawfully engaged to service on board the schooner S. L. Watson, under shipping articles duly signed, on a voyage from Sandusky, Ohio, to Milwaukee, Wis., and thence, via Escanaba, Mich., to any discharging port on Lake Erie, with desertion at the port of Milwaukee. The information is presented under Rev. St. § 4596, and contains all proper aver-ments to bring the matter within that section, if the provisions of title 53 of the Revised Statutes, entitled “Merchant Seamen,” has application to. the Great Lakes. A demurrer is interposed to…