United States v. Pin Kwan
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. This cause comes here upon a writ of error to review a decision of the district court, Northern district of New York (94 Fed. 824), reversing a decision of the United States commissioner which or dered that defendant, a Chinese person, should he deported to the empire of China.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
On March 17, 1899, complaint was duly made under oath charging that Pin Kwan on October 27, 1897, “did unlawfully come into the United States from the empire of China, the said Pin Kwan being then and there a Chinese person and laborer, and not being a merchant or diplomat or other officer of the Chinese or any other government, and without producing the certificate required of Chinese persons seeking to enter the United States, and that he is not entitled to be or remain within the United States.” There is no contention that there was any error in the procedure…
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