Coykendall v. Skrmetta

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order made in a habeas corpus proceeding, discharging the appellee, Nicholas Skrmetta, an alien, who complained of his detention under an order of deportation. It was disclosed that the grounds on which the deportation order was made were: (1) That prior to appellee’s entry into the United States, at Brownsville, Tex., on September 5,1924, he had been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, the only support for that conclusion being evidence of his conviction in California of violations of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA), by…