Weedin v. Moy Fat

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The appellee, a Chinese alien, for 43 years a resident of the United States, pleaded guilty to an indictment which charged him with the crime of receiving and concealing narcotic drugs, in that he “did unlawfully and feloniously receive and conceal narcotic drugs, to wit, 120 grains of smoking opium, after the same had been imported into tbe United States, he, the said Moy Fat, then and there well knowing the same to have been imported contrary to law.” He was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, and at the expiration of said term he was held by' the Commissioner of…