UNITED STATES v. BALESTRA

No. 6134.

88 F.2d 43 (1937)

UNITED STATES v. BALESTRA.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

January 25, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. McAvoy, U. S. Atty., and Gerald A. Gleeson and J. Barton Rettew, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Nazareno Balestra, pro se.

Before BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge, and KIRKPATRICK and MARIS, District Judges.


KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

This petition for naturalization was filed under the provisions of section 4 of the Act of May 24, 1934, 48 Stat. 797 (8 U.S.C.A. § 368), which amends section 2 of the Act of September 22, 1922, 42 Stat. 1022 (8 U.S.C.A. § 368). The petitioner is an alien who married an American woman, a citizen, in 1926.

The pertinent provision of the act of 1934 is "an alien who marries a citizen of the United States, after the passage...

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