Rasmussen v. Robinson

This matter came on for hearing upon a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner was arrested upon a warrant of deportation issued by the Exclusion and Expulsion Section of the Department of Justice under the direction of the Attorney General which charged as follows: “. . . that the alien Johannes Rasmussen or Johs. Rasmussen who entered the United States at Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V. I., on the 28th day of July, 1944, is subject to deportation under the following provisions of the laws of the United States, to wit: the Act of February 5, 1917, in that he admits having committed a felony…