UNITED STATES v. FERRIS

Nos. 18277, 18523, 18524.

19 F.2d 925 (1927)

UNITED STATES v. FERRIS et al. (two cases). SAME v. STONE.

District Court, N. D. California. S. D.

April 20, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Hatfield, U. S. Atty., and Eugene D. Bennett, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal.

Harold C. Faulkner and James B. O'Connor, both of San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.


BOURQUIN, District Judge.

These indictments allege conspiracies to violate the Prohibition and Tariff Acts. Several defendants interpose pleas to the jurisdiction of the court, viz.: That March 1, 1927, they were of the crew of the steamer Federalship, then with their persons seized by United States Coast Guards some 270 miles off the west coast territory of the United States; that forcibly and against their will they were brought within the territory of the jurisdiction...

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