United States v. Mirsky

THACHER, District Judge.

The fact is admitted by the answer that the respondent, during the period of five years preceding the issue of his certificate of naturalization, deliberately violated the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, and on his plea of guilty was fined for his offense as provided in the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. § 10138 % et seq.). The statute requires, as a prerequisite to naturalization, that it shall be made to appear that during the probationary period of five years immediately preceding the application the alien “has behaved as a man of good moral…