United States v. Lem Hoy

A United States Attorney filed an information in a Federal District Court charging that the appellee, Lem Hoy, “did attempt to induce, assist, encourage, and solicit, certain alien persons to migrate to the United States as contract laborers . . . who were not alien contract laborers duly entitled to migrate to the United States under the Act of February 5, 1917, or to enter or migrate to the United States under any other law of the United States, as the defendant then and there well knew.” The conduct charged was made an offense by § 5 of the 1917 Immigration Act referred to in the…