In re Ko Matsumoto
District Court, D. Hawaii
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
- Low Wah Suey v. BackusSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- United States v. Sing Tuck or King Do & Thirty-OneSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Pollard v. LyonSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- In Re KaineSupreme Court of the United States · 1853
- Whitfield v. HangesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1915
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