Melvin Clifford Winestock v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner, a visitor from Canada, has been ordered deported for his conviction of dealing with counterfeit obligations, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 473. * The conviction was for an offense committed within five years of his entry into this county. The sole question is whether violation of this statute constituted a “crime involving moral turpitude” and was thus a deportable offense under 8 U.S.C. § 1251(a)(4).

Count II of the indictment, to which petitioner pleaded guilty, charges that he “sold, transferred and delivered counterfeit securities of the United States,…