Campbell v. United States

SIBLEY, District Judge.

Willard E. Campbell appeals from conviction of a charge of bringing into the United States certain aliens not lawfully entitled to enter.

The indictment charged that he brought them “into the United States from a foreign country, to-wit: Havana, Cuba, at Miami, Florida, by means of a certain vessel, to-wit: Speed Boat Number V-17400.” The testimony was that the aliens were taken by automobile from Havana to a point on the Cuban coast, and there put on a boat called “The Betty,” and transferred on the high seas to the speed boat V-17400, and by it carried to Miami. A…