United States ex rel. Fontan v. Uhl

MANDELBAUM, District Judge.

The relator seeks to sustain a writ of habeas corpus, and thereby prevent his deportation.

The government charges the relator with having been convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude, prior to his entry in this country, and is therefore an alien subject to deportation pursuant to section 155 of title 8 of the United States Code Annotated. That portion of the aforesaid section relative to the situation at bar reads as follows: “Any alien who was convicted, or who admits the commission, prior to entry, of a fglony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral…