Lee Choy v. United States

SAWTELLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Territory of Hawaii ordering the appellant,. Lee Choy, alias Lee Uek Kwong, to be deported to the republic of China.

• Appellant is a Chinese person who entered the territory of Hawaii on June 12, 1923. He obtained admission on the ground that he was a native-born citizen of Hawaii who had left the said territory on July 27, 1900, on the steamship Rio de Janeiro with his mother, Mrs. Ching Shee, a brother, and a sister. On September 17,1923, a certificate of identity; signed by Richard L.…