Ex parte George
| Decision Date | 23 July 1910 |
| Citation | 180 F. 785 |
| Parties | Ex parte GEORGE. |
| Court | U.S. District Court — Northern District of Alabama |
William Vaughn and J. W. Davidson, for petitioner.
J. H Montgomery, Asst. U.S. Atty.
This was a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, upon which the writ was issued to the sheriff of Jefferson county, Ala., in whose custody the petitioner was. The sheriff produced the body of the petitioner, and returned that he was holding him under a warrant issued by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for his deportation to Greece, the country from which he had emigrated to this country about two years and nine months before the proceedings were instituted. The return of the sheriff set out the original warrant of arrest issued to the immigration inspector by the Secretary, the proceedings and evidence introduced at the hearing before the immigration officer, and the warrant for petitioner's deportation. The petitioner was not represented by counsel at the hearing though advised of his right to be so represented, and made no objection to the proceedings there had.
The warrant for arrest set out two grounds as justifying his deportation: (1) That he had been convicted of or had admitted committing a felony or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; and (2) that he had been induced or solicited to migrate to this country by an offer or promise of employment or in consequence of an oral agreement to perform unskilled labor in this country.
The facts developed before the immigration officer, as shown by the return to the writ, were without conflict, being derived entirely from the admissions of petitioner on his examination before the officer on the hearing. His testimony as to the first charge was that some two years before he left Greece he was tried and convicted at Tripoli of a felonious assault and sentenced to four months' imprisonment; that his assault consisted of his act in striking in a quarrel another Greek with a large piece of firewood. At the same time the brother of petitioner stabbed the same person with a knife. The assault, as well as the conviction, was admitted by petitioner. His testimony on the hearing in relation to the second charge was that he left Greece under these circumstances. The owner of a shoe shining establishment in Birmingham, Ala., agreed to employ him in his establishment if he came to America, and pay him $20 per month, to lend him the money needed for his trip, taking as security for the loan a mortgage on petitioner's land in Greece, the loan to be repaid from his wages when employed. The lender and the petitioner came to this country on the same steamship, and petitioner came to Birmingham and went to work for the lender, continued in his service for a year, and out of his wages repaid the loan.
Objection was made to the sufficiency of the warrant, for the first time, upon the hearing of the...
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