Lung

We have examined the record in this case with care, and are of opinion that the assignments of error are without merit. The plaintiff in error was charged by indictment, together with Manuel Mendoza, Martin Mendoza, L. W. Noel, Me Hong, Joaquin Nand, and Arthur Daly, with having unlawfully conspired together to bring into the United States from Mexico certain Chinamen, contrary to the provisions of the statútes of the United States in that behalf enacted. Upon his trial for that alleged offense he was convicted by the jury and sentenced by the court below. On the trial the guilt of Manuel Mendoza and of Noel was conceded, and they were the principal witnesses against the plaintiff in error — in their testimony going into the details of the unlawful transactions and directly connecting the plaintiff in error, Lung, therewith, for whom, according to their testimony, the prohibited Chinese were smuggled into the country by them. The main point on behalf of the plaintiff in error is that, as those witnesses were co-conspirators, the plaintiff in error could not be legally convicted without corroborating evidence, and that there was no such evidence.

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