UNITED STATES v. CURRAN

No. 96.

16 F.2d 15 (1926)

UNITED STATES ex rel. CLAUSSEN v. CURRAN, Commissioner of Immigration.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

December 6, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Silas B. Axtell, of New York City (Charles A. Ellis, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Emory R. Buckner, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Charles L. Sylvester, of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before HOUGH, HAND, and MACK, Circuit Judges.


MACK, Circuit Judge.

The question before us is the meaning of the word "entry" in section 19 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, which provides that "any alien who is hereafter sentenced to imprisonment for a term of one year or more because of conviction in this country of a crime involving moral turpitude, committed within five years after the entry of the alien to the United States, * * * shall, upon the warrant...

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