Legal Opinion

Jung Back Sing v. White

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided May 5, 1919No. 3258Published

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; M. T, Dooling, Judge, Application by Jung Back Sing and Dear Shee for a writ of habeas corpus against Fdward White, as Commissioner of Immigration, Port of San Francisco. From a judgment denying the writ, relators appeal.

1Opinion of the Court

GIFBFRT, Circuit Judge.

Dear Shee, a Chinese alien, was ordered deported upon a warrant which charged that she was found employed by, in, or in connection with a house of prostitution, or resort habitually frequented by prostitutes, or where prostitutes gathered, and that she had been found receiving, sharing in, or deriving benefit from the earnings of a prostitute or prostitutes. Jung Back Sing, claiming *417to he her husband, but who was found by the immigration officials never to have been married to her, filed a- petition in the court below for habeas corpus, alleging that the hearing on the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Mok Nuey Tau v. WhiteCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1917

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