Rousseau v. Weedin

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, an alien, was held by the Commissioner of Immigration on a warrant of deportation. He applied to the court below for a writ of habeas corpus. From the order denying the writ this appeal is taken.

The appellant had been convicted in a court of the state of A¥ashington of the crime of being a “jointist” and sentenced to the state penitentiary to serve at hard labor from one to five years. While he was at large pending his appeal to the Supreme Court of the state, he left the United States and went to Canada. After the affirmance of *566his conviction, he…