JOHNSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 92.

28 F.2d 810 (1928)

JOHNSON, Commissioner of Immigration, et al. v. UNITED STATES ex rel. PEPE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

October 29, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Buckley, U. S. Atty., of Hartford, Conn. (George H. Cohen, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for appellants.

John M. Chapnick, of New Haven, Conn., for appellee.

Before MANTON, SWAN, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).

This appeal involves the construction of section 19 of the Immigation Act of February 5, 1917 (39 Stat. 889; 8 USCA § 155), which reads in part as follows:

"Sec. 19. * * * except as hereinafter provided, 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...

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