United States ex rel. Di Tomasso v. Martineau

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The relator is an alien who arrived in this country in 1919; he was then only nine years old. In 1930 he was convicted in the city court of Hartford, Connecticut, of maintaining a house of prostitution, soliciting for purposes of prostitution and engaging in prostitution. Upon appeal to the superior court, which vacates the prior judgment and involves a trial de novo, a charge of fornication was substituted for the former charges. To this he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment,- the superior court judge who imposed the sentence recommending that he…