Adair
Adair v. Benn
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Rudkin, J.
December 15, 1927, an immigrant inspector made complaint before a United States commissioner in the Western district of Washington, charging that on March 4, 1927, near Murietta Hot Springs, Cal., in the Southern district of that state, and within the jurisdiction of'the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, one Virgil Adair, then and there being, did knowingly, willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously bring into the United States in the said division and district, by airplane, four Chinese alien persons, not duly admitted by an immigrant inspector, and not lawfully entitled to enter or reside within the United States, in violation of the provisions of section 8 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917 (8 USCA § 144); that subsequent to March 4, 1927, an indictment charging the said Virgil Adair with the commission of said offense was duly and regularly returned in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of California; that upon the filing of said indictment a warrant for the arrest of said Virgil Adair was issued and that said Adair is now a fugitive from justice, within the Southern division of the Western district of…