United States ex rel. Knupfer v. Watkins

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The relator Knupfer, a native born German who became a citizen of the United States through naturalization on November 25, 1930, was thereafter convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York of engaging in a conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 301 et seq. While he was imprisoned under that conviction, an action was brought against him by complaint on behalf of the United States filed on February 3, 1945, in the Eastern District of New York, which sought to de-naturalize him. On June 1,…