Rosenberg v. United States

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

This case concerns the cancellation of a certificate of naturalization. The pertinent act, 34 Stat. at Large, 500, § 4 (8 USCA § 382), provides that a court may grant a petition for naturalization whore the applicant “immediately preceding the date of his application * *' has resided continuously within the United States, five years at least, and within the State or Territory where such court is at the time held one year at least.”

In pursuance of that statute, one Louis Eosenherg presented a petition to a New York court praying naturalization and asserting that he…