United States ex rel. Griffo v. McCandless

DICKINSON, District Judge.

The conclusion reached is that the relator be discharged without day. The question here is wholly one of power. We do not go (beyond the record of conviction) into the vexing question of what kind of an act evidences “moral turpitude,” further than to note that the public authorities have passed upon the character of this alien’s conduct, and we would see no need to review their judgment. Assuming the alien here has been guilty of .conduct evidencing such moral turpitude as would (if the power exists) justify a sentence of deportation, the question recurs: Have the…