District Court, S.D. New York July 14, 1953 (United States ex rel. Pappageanakis v. Shaughnessy)

DIMOCK, District Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding in which relator, an alien, claims that he is being'illegally held for deportation by immigration officials. The warrant of deportation is based on the ground that relator was convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude prior to his last entry into the United States and it refers to the Act of Feb. 5, 1917, § 19, formerly 8 U.S.C.