United States ex rel. Parenti v. Martineau

THOMAS, District Judge.

By a writ of habeas corpus, the petitioner seeks to test the validity of a warrant for his deportation to Italy.

The respondent has filed a return to the writ which shows that the petitioner is a native and subject of Italy, and that he arrived in this country about July 1, 1905. The return further shows that on November 20, 1918, the petitioner wa-s found guilty of theft, and sentenced by the judge of the police court for the city of Meriden to the Connecticut Reformatory at Cheshire for an indeterminate period, and remained there for two years; that subsequently,…