Strench v. Pedaris

POLLOCK, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order entered in a habeas corpus proceeding discharging George Pedaris from the custody of W. R. Mansfield, District Director of the United States Immigration Service, and from imprisonment and restraint under a deportation warrant issued on October 26, 1927, by the Assistant Secretary of Labor.

The questions presented are: (1) Was there any substantial evidence before the District Director that Pedaris was an inmate of a house of prostitution; (2) did Pedaris have a fair trial before the District Director before the order of deportation was…