Chan Wong v. Nagle

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The questions presented by the record are few and simple.

On April 24,1925, the appellant and three other Chinese women were arrested by the local police at 20% Ross Alley, San Francisco, on the charge of practicing prostitution. On the following morning the appellant was examined or interviewed by an immigrant inspector through an interpreter, and admitted that she had been practicing prostitution for three or four years, and that she understood what prostitution meant. Again, on the hearing…