Browder v. United States

The question is whether the use by an American citizen of a passport obtained by false statements to facilitate reentry into the United States is a “use” within § 2 of the Passport Title of the Act of June 15, 1917, 1 and, if so, whether petitioner was properly convicted of a “willful” use. We brought the case here because of its importance in the administration of the passport laws.

Section 2 provides that whoever shall either make a false statement in an application for a passport or “shall willfully and knowingly use . . . any passport the issue of which was secured in any way by reason of…