UNITED STATES v. SMITH

No. 38250.

36 F.2d 503 (1929)

UNITED STATES ex rel. COSTEA v. SMITH, District Director of Immigration.

District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

December 14, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Snow, of Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

George E. Q. Johnson, U. S. Dist. Atty., and Eugene A. Tappy, Asst. U. S. Dist. Atty., both of Chicago, Ill., for respondent.


WOODWARD, District Judge.

This matter comes up on petition of the relator, John Costea, for a writ of habeas corpus and the return to the writ.

Petitioner, an alien, seeks relief from his detention under a deportation warrant of the Secretary of Labor charging (1) that he entered the United States in violation of the Passport Law (Act May 22, 1918, § 1, 22 USCA § 223), and its extension (Act March 2, 1921, § 1, 22 USCA § 227), and the President...

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