United States v. Chin Quong Look
District Court, D. Washington
At Law. Proceeding to enforce Chinese exclusion act. Appeal from judgment of United States commissioner convicting the defendant of being unlawfully in the United States.
1Opinion of the Court
Hanford, District Judge.
The defendant was arrested on his arrival at the city of Seattle from China, via Vancouver, B. C., and after a hearing before James Kiefer, one of the commissioners of the circuit court, he was adjudged to be a Chinese person not lawfully entitled to enter the United States, or to remain therein, and ordered to be sent back to China. By an appeal he has secured a new trial in this court.
The evidence is very clear and satisfactory, and establishes the following as the material facts: The defendant formerly lived in Seattle, and while here he acquired a one-fifth…
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