Legal Opinion
Ex parte Lair
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided March 30, 1910No. 1,091PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Henry Lair. Writ granted.
1Opinion of the Court
PHILIPS, District Judge.
The petitioner was indicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, in .December, 1908, for violating the “Act of Congress prohibiting the importation into the United States of any alien woman or girl for the *791purpose of prostitution, and for holding such alien for any such purpose in pursuance of such illegal importation,” etc.
The first count of the indictment charges, in substance, that the petitioner, under various aliases, in connection with one Airs. Henry Hair, at Chicago, in the Eastern division of the Northern district of…
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3Cited by5 opinions
- United States v. Paul N. Hankish, and James L. MatthewsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1974
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- Walsh v. ArcherCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1934
- United States v. KrsteffDistrict Court, S.D. Illinois · 1911
- United States v. Paul N. Hankish, and James L. MatthewsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1974