UNITED STATES v. HUGHES

No. M — 5664.

26 F.Supp. 192 (1938)

UNITED STATES ex rel. DRACHMOS v. HUGHES, U. S. Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of Philadelphia, et al.

District Court, D. New Jersey.

December 12, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert P. Morwitz, of Camden, N. J., for relator.

John J. Quinn, U. S. Atty., of Red Bank, N. J., and W. Orvyl Schalick, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Camden, N. J., for United States of America.


AVIS, District Judge.

The relator was born in Greece in 1901; came to the United States as a sailor in 1921; deserted his ship and remained until he was arrested on deportation proceedings. After an order of deportation, he obtained the writ of habeas corpus upon which hearing and argument has been had.

The charge is that relator at the time of his entry into the United States was not in possession of an unexpired immigration visa.

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