United States Ex Rel. Sirtie v. Commissioner of Immigration at Port of New York

CAMPBELL, District Judge.

This matter comes before the court on the writ of habeas corpus allowed herein and the return thereto. The relator is an alien 19 years old, male, single, errand boy by occupation, and arrived in the United States on an unknown steamer about the year 1912.

On July 7, 1922, the alien, then being over 16 years of age, on conviction by confession of the misdemeanor of unlawfully entering a building, was sentenced by Judge John-stone, at a term of the Court of General Sessions in the County of New York, to an indeterminate sentence in New York County Reformatory of…