Whitfield v. Hanges
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern 'District of Iowa; Henry T. Reed, Judge. Habeas corpus by George Ranges and .others hgainst S. I,. Whitfield, Immigration Officer. From a judgment discharging petitioners, respondent appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
Pursuant to the opinion and direction of this court in Whitfield, Immigration Inspector, v. Hanges et al., 222 Fed. 745, 755, 756, 138 C. C. A. 199, the court below has tried on the merits de novo on evidence introduced before that court the question whether or not the resident aliens, Hanges and others, were guilty of the charges made against them in the warrant for their arrest, found that there was no evidence to support those charges, and has ordered and decreed that the writ of habeas corpus in their behalf be sustained, that each of them be discharged, and that…
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