Schmucker v. Martinez

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals by tbe United States from orders in babeas corpus proceedings, discharging tbe petitioners Christobal Martinez and Ignacio Gonzales from tbe custody of immigration officials. As both appeals involve the same questions, we shall discuss them together. Martinez and Gonzales are alien seamen being subjects of the King of Spain. They first arrived in tbe United States in 1917 and 1918, respectively, as members of the crews of foreign vessels, and have never been legally admitted except temporarily as alien seamen. Both are illiterate and both since their…