United States v. Russo

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction for violating Section 469, [now § 2199] of Title 18 of the United States Code Annotated. This section prohibited any person without the consent of the owner or master of a vessel and with intent to obtain transportation on such yessel without paying therefor, from boarding, entering or secreting himself aboard such vessel in any place within or without the jurisdiction of the United States and remaining aboard and being thereon at any place within the jurisdiction of the United States.

There was evidence that the defendant Russo boarded the…