Riley v. Howes

PETERS, District Judge.

This is the second writ of habeas corpus granted the petitioner in his effort to escape deportation as an alien in this country in violation of law. The decision in the first ease (Ex parte Riley [D. C.] 17 F.[2d] 646), rendered June 28, 1926, after a reopening and rehearing, gives most of the history of the case up to that time. Final determination of the second case has been deferred at the request of the petitioner until he could procure evidence on the new claim, now raised by him, that he is a citizen of this country, and always has been, and thus not subject to…