Low Kwai v. Backus
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Habeas corpus by Low Kwai and wife against Samuel W. Backus, as Commissioner of Immigration of the Port of San Francisco. From an order discharging the writ, and remanding one of the petitioners to custody for deportation, the petitioners appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order discharging a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of the female appellant, Mrs. Low Kwai, alias Ho Shee, and remanding her to custody for deportation.
It appears from the record that she was admitted into this country as tiie wife of the appellant Low Kwai, who, it appears, was a native of this country. Subsequently she was arrested by an immigration officer on the ground that she was practicing prostitution, and *482after various proceedings set forth in the record, resulting in the finding that' she was such prostitute and never was the wife of Low…
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