Repouille v. United States

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The District Attorney, on behalf of the-Immigration and Naturalization Service-, has appealed from an order, naturalizing the appellee, Repouille. The ground of the objection in the district court and here is that he did not show himself to have been a person of “good moral character” for the five years which preceded the filing of his petition.1 The facts were as follows. The petition was filed on September 22; 1944, and on October 12, 1939, he had deliberately put to death his son, a boy of thirteen, by means of chloroform. His reason for this tragic deed was that the…