Legal Opinion

In re Ko Matsumoto

District Court, D. Hawaii

Decided December 4, 1915Published

Habeas Corpus: Hearing on return to writ.

1Opinion of the CourtClemons, J.

The board of special inquiry of the immigration service at the port of Honolulu denied the petitioner a landing at that port “as a person who admits having committed a crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, namely the commission of adultery with one Matsu-moto, in the Territory of Hawaii; also as admitting having-committed perjury by giving false testimony before the board of special inquiry while under oath, and as a person likely to become a public charge.”

[la] The admission of adultery is based on the following testimony of the petitioner, in her examination before the board on…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Low Wah Suey v. BackusSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
  2. United States v. Sing Tuck or King Do & Thirty-OneSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
  3. Pollard v. LyonSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
  4. In Re KaineSupreme Court of the United States · 1853
  5. Whitfield v. HangesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1915

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