United States v. Wong Ah Hung
District Court, N.D. California
Proceedings hy the United States against Wong Ah TTung to deport the defendant under the provisions of the act of November 3, 1893, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States,’ approved May 5th, 1892.” Defendant, ordered to be deported.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, District Judge.
The defendant was tried and convicted in this court, in December, 1887, upon two charges, — one for bringing into the United States kidnapped persons to hold to involuntary servitude (Act June 23, 1874, 18 Stat. 251); and the oilier for importing women for the purposes of prostitution (section S, Act March 3, 1875; 18 St,at. 477). He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, at hard labor in the state prison, writh a fine of $1,000, upon each charge, imprisonment for the second charge to date from the expiration of the imprisonment on the first charge. These terms of…
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