Choy Gum v. Backus
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; M. T. Dooling, Judge. Petition for habeas corpus by Choy Gum, sometimes referred to as Lo King, against Samuel W. Backus, as Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of S'an Francisco. From a judgment dismissing the petition on sustaining a demurrer thereto, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WOLVERTON, District Judge.
This cause is here on appeal from a judgment dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus; a demurrer having been sustained to such petition. The petitioner is a Chinese woman, who is charged with being unlawfully in this country because engaged in practicing prostitution, and is held for deportation upon warrant of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The purpose of suing out the writ was to effect her release from such custody.
The alleged illegality of her restraint consists in abuse of discretion by the immigration officers in the examination of the…
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