Di Pierro v. Tillinghast

MORTON, District Judge.

There is no controversy about the facts. The petitioner is an alien who was lawfully admitted to this country in 1920. In November, 1923, he was convicted in the Massachusetts courts of the crime, abuse of a female child, which unquestionably involved moral turpitude. He was sentenced on November 21, 1923, to imprisonment in the Massachusetts Reformatory for the term of fifteen months. It is suggested for the prisoner that the girl concerned was almost sixteen years old and of bad character; and that if the present provision of law permitting the trial judge to make a…